 In psycholinguistics, the study of word meaning is understood as the investigation of the mental lexicon, the cognitive system that underlies the capacity for conscious and unconscious lexical activity (Jarema &amp; Libben 2007). Simply put, the mental lexicon is the long-term representational inventory storing the body of linguistic knowledge speakers are required to master in order to make competent use of the lexical elements of a language; as such, it can be equated with the lexical component of an individual’s language capacity. Research on the mental lexicon is concerned with a variety of problems (for surveys, see, e.g., Traxler &amp; Gernsbacher 2006, Spivey, McRae &amp; Joanisse 2012, Harley 2014), that center around the following tasks: