What is it about?

Words in the Mind introduces the issues and background to the mental lexicon. It remains an essential introductory text on these issues for linguistics and other students.

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Why is it important?

A key dimension of semantics

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Remains an important text for anyone working in this and related areas, e.g. discourse analysis.

Associate Professor Gavin B Melles
Technische Universitat Dresden

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This page is a summary of: Review of Aitchison (1994): Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, February 2021, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/aral.21.1.12mel.
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