Lexical knowledge assessment

Experimental data and hypotheses

Abstract

Although there are some hypotheses about the internal structure of the lexicon and its status in grammar models, no theoretical approach about what words speakers really know or use is available. In this text, we display the results of an offline test, conducted to measure individual word knowledge. These results show that word knowledge is independent of word length or word frequency values. This is a very interesting conclusion because it allows us to define a new variable for online testing, tailored for each specific test.