Contemporary psycholinguistic models place significant emphasis on the cognitive processes involved in the acquisition, recognition, and production of language but neglect many issues related to the representation of language-related information in the mental lexicon. In contrast, a central tenet of network science is that the structure of a network influences the processes that operate in that system, making process and representation inextricably connected. Here, we consider how the structure found across phonological networks of several languages from different language families may influence language processing as we age and experience diseases that affect cognition during the typical and atypical acquisition of new words, during typical perception and production of speech in adults, and during language change over time. We conclude that the network science approach may not only provide insights into specific language processes but also provide a way to connect the work from these domains, which are becoming increasingly balkanized.

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网络科学能告诉我们关于音韵学和语言处理的什么信息？

当代心理语言学模型非常重视语言的获得、识别和产生所涉及的认知过程，但忽略了许多与心理词典中语言相关信息表示相关的问题。相比之下，网络科学的一个中心原则是网络的结构会影响在该系统中运行的过程，使过程和表示密不可分。在这里，我们考虑了在不同语言家族的几种语言的语音网络中发现的结构如何影响语言处理，因为我们随着年龄的增长和在新词的典型和非典型习得过程中、在成人的典型感知和言语产生过程中经历影响认知的疾病，并且在语言随时间变化的过程中。