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The purpose of this paper is to explore the terminology, concepts and access to bilingual lexical representation. The core problem of linguistic cognitive structure is linguistic representation which is the reflection of individual psychology on linguistic knowledge. In terms of linguistic representation, the research and experiments on the evidence of lexical representation in modern psycholinguistic period are reviewed. Psycholinguistic studies attempt to apply elucidate language theories and model systems to operate and interpret representational data. We recognize that the use of the concept of lexical representation may contribute to the search for "psychological grammar" .Moreover, we present the original intention of studying bilingual representation and three approaches of the bilingual lexical representation: lexical meaning, direct representation of reality, functional representations. Our focuses are models of lexical access, variables that influence lexical access and appraising models of lexical access. Then we represent models of lexical access, which are influenced by variety of factors, including the frequency of a word, its phonological structure, its syntactic category, its morphological structure, the presence of semantically related words, and the existence of alternative meaning of the word. It is concluded that bilingual lexical representation access is influenced by a variety of factors.

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  • IntroductionPerkell (1982) has provided a convenient framework of a processing model which works from sensory goals to motor commands

  • Preview Studies have shown that linguistic cognitive structure exists in the process of bilingual transformation

  • Linguistic representation is the core question of linguistic cognitive structure, which reflects linguistic knowledge in individual psychology, but displays one’s linguistic and semantic style

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Introduction

Perkell (1982) has provided a convenient framework of a processing model which works from sensory goals to motor commands It deliberately reflects a fairly traditional approach to the issue of how a segmentally structured input, in the form of target articulations for individual segments within a sequence, may be transposed into motor commands for the implementation of an essentially continuous speech signal. In the early part of this period, experimental investigations were carried out intensively on specific of language behavior that was suggested by current theories of the language system Within this framework, it was thought possible that psycholinguistic research might permit performance data to be interpreted in such a way as to shed light on the operations of the competence system which linguistic theory attempted to model (Chomsky, 1965). As a cognitive entity, is to be thought of not as fixed, unitary system, but rather as a complex of elements, which might reorganize, in the face of particular task demands, in order to optimize performance in specific situations; a natural further consideration was that, if the experimental tasks required subjects to perform in ways that were markedly different from everyday functions of language outside the psycholinguistics laboratory, their might have little bearing on ordinary sorts of language behavior

Lexical Representation and Its Access
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