%K RETRIEVAL %N 1 %D 1999 %I CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS %J BEHAV BRAIN SCI %A M Zorzi %A G Vigliocco %L discovery69720 %X We discuss two key assumptions of Levelt et al.'s model of lexical retrieval: (1) the nondecompositional character of concepts and (2) lemmas as purely syntactic representations. These assumptions fail to capture the broader role of lemmas, which we propose as that of lexical-semantic representations binding (compositional) semantics with phonology (or orthography). %V 22 %P 60 - 61 %T Compositional semantics and the lemma dilemma