Abstract
This paper discusses the structure of the lexicon and its stored representations used for lexical access from a literature review on speech segmentation and adult auditory word recognition models. This paper is organized as follows: After a short introduction in Section 1, Section 2 provides a view from that phonological structure of the language emerges in order to find connections among meaning, acoustic input and production, those of which do not have a one-to-one correspondence. Section 3 reports a review of studies on speech segmentation that provides types of phonological information used for lexical access. In section 4, stored representations used for lexical access are discussed by summa- rizing the characteristics of the current proposed word recognition models for adult listeners. Finally, a summary of this paper and the contribution of phonetic research in Cognitive Science are discussed in Section 5.
