Networks in the mind - what communities reveal about the structure of the lexicon

被引:8
作者
Kovacs, Laszlo [1 ]
Bota, Andras [2 ]
Hajdu, Laszlo [3 ,4 ,5 ]
Kresz, Miklos [3 ,6 ,7 ]
机构
[1] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE Savaria Univ Ctr, Fac Social Sci, Savaria Dept Business Adm, Karolyi Gaspar Sq 4, H-9700 Szombathely, Hungary
[2] Lulea Univ Technol, Dept Comp Sci Elect & Space Engn, Intelligent Syst Lab, S-97187 Lulea, Sweden
[3] Innorenew CoE, Livade 6, SI-6310 Izola, Slovenia
[4] Univ Primorska, Fac Math Nat Sci & Informat Technol, Glagoljaska 8, SI-6000 Koper, Slovenia
[5] Univ Szeged, Inst Informat, Arpad Ter 2, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
[6] Univ Primorska, Andrej Marusic Inst, Muzejski Trg 2, SI-6000 Koper, Slovenia
[7] Univ Szeged, Fac Educ, Boldogasszony Sgt 6, H-6725 Szeged, Hungary
来源
OPEN LINGUISTICS | 2021年 / 7卷 / 01期
关键词
networks; mental lexicon; associations; multilayered network; Hungarian; communities; EARLY WORD ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE; MODEL;
D O I
10.1515/opli-2021-0012
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
The mental lexicon stores words and information about words. The lexicon is seen by many researchers as a network, where lexical units are nodes and the different links between the units are connections. Based on the analysis of a word association network, in this article we show that different kinds of associative connections exist in the mental lexicon. Our analysis is based on a word association database from the agglutinative language Hungarian. We use communities - closely knit groups - of the lexicon to provide evidence for the existence and coexistence of different connections. We search for communities in the database using two different algorithms, enabling us to see the overlapping (a word belongs to multiple communities) and non-overlapping (a word belongs to only one community) community structures. Our results show that the network of the lexicon is organized by semantic, phonetic, syntactic and grammatical connections, but encyclopedic knowledge and individual experiences are also shaping the associative structure. We also show that words may be connected not just by one, but more types of connections at the same time.
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页码:181 / 199
页数:19
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