Co-activation and competition effects in lexical storage and processing

According to traditional wisdom in Linguistics, morphologically simple words reside in the mental lexicon, a kind of brain dictionary that contains unpredictable mappings between lexical features. Here I illustrate some of the defining features of an alternative view of the language architecture, where computation and storage are just the short-term and long-term dynamics of the same underlying process. Empirical results of a computational model of this view are reported and general implications for a theory of the lexicon are discussed.