@ARTICLE{Gabryś_Danuta_Measuring_2001,
 author={Gabryś, Danuta},
 number={vol. 22},
 journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA},
 pages={145-158},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2001},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach},
 abstract={Lexical competence of a speaker/multilingual learner which should be understood not only as "the sum of speaker's konwledge of the items the lexicon contains" (Meara I 996), but their mutual connctivity as well, can be described in terms of two major characteristics: size and structure (organization). The article reports the study focussing on the organization of a mental lexicon of trilingual learners with three different language competences: L 1 - Polish (native), L2 - English (advanced) and L3 - German (intermediate). The group of 90 trilingual language students divided into three language groups (LI, L2, L3) was exposed to the task of creating association chains in three respective languages. The subjects were given a list of individual pairs of frequent words, selected at random, where in each pair one item constituted an input and the other, the output. The task consisted in filling in the gap in the association chain under the time limit (15 minutes for 20 association chains). The research was to give sample evidence of lexical competence in three different languages of the subjects in terms of their mental lexicon organization. The data collected aimed at showing examples of high versus low connectivity observed in the association chains, as well as showing similarities and differences in patterns of connections made in different languages. The variables considered were: the length of association chains, complete versus unfinished chains, types of associations: syntagmatic versus paradigmatic and concrete versus abstract words.},
 type={Article},
 title={Measuring the lexical organisation of trilingual learners' mental lexicon: Evidence from the association},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/133008/PDF-MASTER/12_SILESIANA_22_Gabrys_MEASURING.pdf},
}