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Title: Organizational and formational structures of networks in the mental lexicon: A State-of-the-art through systematic review
Author: McCarthy, Luke
Miralpeix, Imma
Keywords: Vocabulari
Lexicografia
Vocabulary
Lexicography
Issue Date: 24-Dec-2019
Publisher: MDPI
Abstract: This state-of-the-art presents a systematic exploration on the use of network patterns in global research efforts to understand, organize and represent the mental lexicon. Results have shown an increase over recent years in the usage of complex, small-world and scale-free network patterns within the literature.With the increasing complexity of network patterns, we see more potential in the inter-disciplinary exploration of the mental lexicon through universal and mathematically-describable, behavioral patterns in small-world and scale-free networks. A systematic review of 36 items of methodologically-selected literature serve as a means to explore how the greater literary body understands network structures within the mental lexicon. Network-based approaches are discriminated between three contrasting varieties. These include: 'simple networks', characterized by arbitrarily organized graph patterns of metaphorical importance; 'connectionist networks', a broad category of networks which explore the structural features of a system through the analysis of emergent properties; and lastly 'complex networks', distinguished as small-world, scale-free networks which follow a strict and mathematically-describable structure in agreement with the Barabási-Albert model. Each network approach is explored in terms of their discernible di erences which relate to their parameters and affect their implications. A final evaluation of observed patterns within the selected literature is o ered, as well as an elaboration on the sense of trajectory beheld in the research in order to offer insight and orientation for future research.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5010001
It is part of: Languages, 2019, vol. 5, num. 1
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/174923
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5010001
ISSN: 2226-471X
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