Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Polysemy is the type of lexical ambiguity where a word has multiple distinct but related
interpretations. In the past decade, it has been the subject of a great many studies across …

If the structure of language vocabularies mirrors the structure of natural divisions that are
universally perceived, then the meanings of words in different languages should closely …

Most theories of concepts take concepts to be structured bodies of information used in
categorization and inference. This paper argues for a version of atomism, on which concepts …

Polysemy, understood as instances of a single linguistic expression having multiple related
senses, is not a homogenous phenomenon. There are regular (apparently, rule‐based) …

There is an ongoing debate about the meaning of lexical words, ie, words that contribute
with content to the meaning of sentences. This debate has coincided with a renewal in the …

This thesis addresses the lexical and psycholinguistic properties of copredication. In
particular, it explores its acceptability, frequency, crosslinguistic and electrophysiological …

Word learning is typically studied as a problem in which children need to learn a single
meaning for a new word. And by most theories, children's learning is itself guided by the …

Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated
with two or several related senses. It is distinguished from monosemy, where one word form …

Most words are ambiguous: Individual word forms (eg, run) can map onto multiple different
interpretations depending on their sentence context (eg, the athlete/politician/river runs) …