CONTENTS
Preface = ⅶ
Acknowledgements = ⅸ
PART 1 Aims and Evidence
1. Welcome to Dictionopolis!,The human word-store = 3
2. Links in the Chain, Assessing the evidence = 15
3. Programming Dumbella, Modelling the mental lexicon = 27
PART 2 Basic Ingredients
4. Slippery Customers, Attempts to pin down the meaning of words = 39
5. Bad Birds and Better Birds, Prototype theories = 51
6. The Primordial Atomic Globule Hunt, The search for semantic primitives = 63
7. Word-webs, Semantic networks = 72
8. What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?, How children learn the meaning of words = 86
9. Lexical All-sorts, Parts of speech = 98
10. BitsofWords, Themternalarchitecture of words = 107
11. Taking Care of the Sounds, Dealing with the sound patterns = 118
12. Aggergog Miggers, Wips and Gucks, How children cope with the sound structure of words = 128
PART 3 Novelties
13. Interpreting Ice-cream Cones, Extending old words = 143
14. Clobbering Mattresses, Creating new words = 152
PART 4 The Overall Picture
15. Seeking and Finding, Selecting words = 165
16. Organized Guesswork, Recognizing words = 177
17. Odd Arrangements and Funny Solutions, The organization of the mental lexicon = 190
18. Last Word, Final comments and future questions = 202
Abbreviations and Symbols = 207
References = 208
Index = 223
