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Peer reviewedBlaubergs, Maija S. – Language Sciences, 1980
A model of the structure of complex words based on an organization of the internal lexicon by shared-meaning content is proposed. Results of traditional linguistic experiments testing the hypothesis show that meaning content is a more salient basis for judgments of similarity and difference than is meaning structure. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedZwicky, Arnold M. – Language Sciences, 1979
Examines 158 examples of malapropisms and determines three possible sources of this type of error: (1) childhood errors that were never corrected, (2) other kinds of imperfect learning, and (3) breakdown in the storage and retrieval system of the mental lexicon. (AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Processing
