On enlightenments of mental lexicon to English vocabulary teaching;

Study of mental lexicon and foreign language teaching;

The theories of mental lexicon explain how words are organized and accessed in human brain from the angle of psycholinguistics,studies of which provide vital enlightenments to English vocabulary teaching.

This paper samples BNC(British National Corpus) to analyze the semantic features,argument structures and transitivity of the five most common mental verbs in spoken English("want","know","mean","think"and"see"),with the aim of laying bare their commonest argument structures in spontaneous conversation.

Among the mental verbs,only those which express positive meanings(joy,happiness,etc)are acceptable in this structure.

This paper reports an ERP experiment to answer two research questions, that is, whether late proficient Chinese-English bilinguals have two mental lexicon semantic systems or share a common one, and how the forms of mental lexicons of the two languages activate and interact with one another.

The concept of mental lexicon was advanced by Treisman since 1960 s,it was applied extensively to the study of the second language learning.

The reearch of mental lexicon from the perspective of cognitive psychology involved in reading comprehension usually lays emphasis on the mental process.

Representation models in bilingual mental lexicon from Frege s meaning theory;

From not being comprehended completely to entering mental lexicon and being drawn to context freely,they constitute a scalar sequence with continuum attribution.

Nearly half a centurys investigation of the representational structure of the bilingual mental lexicon has produced dozens of studies.

The psychological verbs are so complicated inside that it is difficult to define them in the same way.

The article mainly analyzed the synonymous collocation of the psychological verbs appeared in the book Shuo Yuan,and it explained further the characteristics and functions of synonymous collocation of the psychological verbs .

The researches about psychological verbs in Modern Chinese have had a long history, and have obtained plenty of achievements, but consider of the Jiaguwen s characteristics, this paper makes a wide definition to psychological verbs with all verbs in relation to psychological or feeling or speech.