Background Information
Prior to jumping into information about the cohort model, it is important to understand some other terms that are important when talking about lexical retrieval. First of all, the lexicon is the store of words in a person's mind. It is how our vocabulary is stored and is similar to a mental dictionary. A lexical entry is all the information about a word and the lexical storage is the way the items are stored for peak retrieval. Lexical access is the way that people access the information in the mental lexicon. Finally, a word's cohort is composed of all the lexical items that share an initial sequence of phonemes. In other words, a word's cohort is the set of activated words.
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