speech (week 2)

Question 1

what is lexicalisation?

Answer 1

the process of adding words, set phrases, or word patterns to a language’s lexicon - whether word formation and lexicalisation refer to the same process is controversial within field of linguistics

Question 2

what is cascade processing?

Answer 2

the implementation of later stages of information processing before the completion of earlier stages - in cascade processing model a word may, for example, be matched against items in the lexicon, by way of hypotheses or guesses, before all the letters have been identified, and conjectures about meaning may be made before a complete lexical match has been established

Question 3

what is a lemma?

Answer 3

a form of word that appears as an entry in a dictionary and is used to represent all the other forms e.g., the lemma “build” represents “builds”, “building”, “built” etc.