Cohort model

The cohort model in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics is a model of lexical retrieval first proposed by William Marslen-Wilson in the late 1970s.[1] It attempts to describe how visual or auditory input (i.e., hearing or reading a word) is mapped onto a word in a hearer's lexicon.[2] According to the model, when a person hears speech segments real-time, each speech segment "activates" every word in the lexicon that begins with that segment, and as more segments are added, more words are ruled out, until only one word is left that still matches the input.

  1. ^ William D. Marslen-Wilson and Alan Welsh (1978) Processing Interactions and Lexical Access during Word Recognition in Continuous Speech. Cognitive Psychology,10,29–63
  2. ^ Kennison, Shelia (2019). Psychology of language: Theories and applications. Red Globe Press. ISBN 978-1137545268.