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Title Organizatinal word patterns in the Mental Lexicon: A Psycholinguistic Study

Author(s) RIZWANA JABEEN

Abstract Title: ORGANIZATION OF WORDS IN THE MENTAL LEXICON: A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY Mental lexicon refers to the part of the brain where word learning, storage, and retrieval occur. Lexical relation is a method used in psycholinguistics to look at how peoples’ mental model networks are set up in their brains. The current research has attempted to find out organization of words in the mental lexicon of grade 4 students. For this purpose, hundred students have been selected of grade 4 from the selected schools. This study employs quantitative method. The responses of the hundred students in word association test have been analyzed by using Fitzpatrick’s (2007) model of ‘classification of association response’. This model is applied to find out how the English language learners of grade 4 make position-based and meaning-based associations between the words through word association response. The research also sheds light on how the lexical networks of the English Language learners of grade 4 are characterized and influenced by the lexical class of the words. This work is important because it makes a significant advance to the understanding of the organization of words in the mental lexicon. Position-based association, which accounted for 56.95% of the total collected data dominated the distribution of the data. The outcome indicated that just 17.95% of connections are meaning-based. Collocation associations have been prevalent in position-based association. The findings of the word association test showed that the participants’ mental lexicon was impacted by their comprehension and use of the target term. Hence, it is concluded that in the participants’ mental lexicon, position-based association is the strongest lexical network.

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Publication Date 2023-06-13

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