This book includes the work of experts from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to understand how the human brain represents words. The focus of the volume is on the nature and structure of word forms and morphemes, the processes operating on the speech input to gain access to lexical representations, the modeling and acquisition of these processes, and on the neural underpinnings of lexical representation and process. Phonology and Phonetics have had a tumultuous, if not always unequivocal, relationship in the past. This relationship between natural partners is now being invigorated from both sides and novel research techniques and methodologies are fostering new interdisciplinary questions. Consequently, a major issue today is whether it is necessary to draw a line between phonology and phonetics at all. This series aims to stabilize and strengthen the rapport and, by facing the big challenges, to ensure that phonetically grounded phonology and phonologically informed phonetics will have a sound future. The series is intended as a forum for the interaction of phonology and phonetics within linguistics. It welcomes joint phonological-phonetic ventures as well as initiatives from either discipline, as long as they are made with a view of the other. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher. Text Acknowledgements 7 Contents 9 Lexical representation: A multidisciplinary approach 11 Semantic constraints on morphological processing 23 The lexicon and phonetic categories: Change is bad, change is necessary 43 Early links in the early lexicon: Semantically related word-pairs prime picture looking in the second year 61 Words: Discrete and discreet mental representations 99 Neural systems underlying lexical competition in auditory word recognition and spoken word production: Evidence from aphasia and functional neuroimaging 133 Connectionist perspectives on lexical representation 159 Recognizing words from speech: The perception-action-memory loop 181 Brain structures underlying lexical processing of speech: Evidence from brain imaging 207 The neuronal infrastructure for unification at multiple levels 241 Subject index 253 Colour plates 256 Main description: This book includes the work of experts from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to understand how the human brain represents words. The focus of the volume is on the nature and structure of word forms and morphemes, the processes operating on the speech input to gain access to lexical representations, the modeling and acquisition of these processes, and on the neural underpinnings of lexical representation and process
