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No.4, July 2002 Journal of Foreign Languages General Serial No.140

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On the Representational Structure of the Bilingual Mental Lexicon

DONG Yan-pingGUI Shi-chun
(National Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,
Guangzhou 510421, China)
AbstractNearly half a century investigation of the representational structure of the bilingual mental lexicon
has produced dozens of studies. A detailed analysis of these studies revealed 7 different representational models,
among which we found 4 contrasts. Future studies should take into consideration the methodological problem,
early bilinguals, different aspects of word knowledge and the development of L2 word knowledge.
Key words mental lexicon; bilingual; representation

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