no, i was blogging about Lexicon to Flexicon: The Principles of Morphological Transcendence and Lexical Superstates in the Characterization of Words in the Mind
The field of mental lexicon research has benefitted greatly from the founding metaphor of a dictionary in the mind. That metaphor, however, had its origins in a perspective in which the lexicon was seen as a static repository of representations with fixed structural properties
In the history of psycholinguistics, the mental lexicon has been an extremely successful and enduring construct. One reason for its success is that it was built on a metaphor that is both familiar and easily accessible to all—a dictionary. Historically, the metaphorical relationship between the mental lexicon and a physical dictionary has made it easy for theoretical and computational linguists, psychologists, and neuroscientists to engage in transdisciplinary research.
