Lexical Knowledge

Lexical knowledge, encompassing the mental representation of words and their meanings, is a central area of psycholinguistics and computational linguistics research. Current investigations focus on improving models of lexical access and semantic representation, often employing neural network architectures and large language models to analyze word frequencies from diverse sources like YouTube subtitles and to predict human language processing. These efforts aim to refine our understanding of how lexical knowledge is acquired, stored, and utilized in language comprehension and production, with implications for improving natural language processing technologies and advancing cognitive science theories.