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mental lexicon

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mental lexicon
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(Psychology) the store of words in a person's mind
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Noun1.mental lexicon - a language user's knowledge of wordsmental lexicon - a language user's knowledge of words
lexicon, vocabulary
cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
language, speech - the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
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The different senses and meanings of a word are not predetermined in any kind of mental lexicon, but because of the generative lexicon, they emerge in the context.
High-Order Co-Occurrence & Search Engines Optimization (SEO) by sheetal vadhera / Internet and Businesses Online community
Theoretical approaches to the representation of morphology in the mental lexicon The issue of the representation and processing of morphologically complex words has received much attention in the psycholinguistic literature (see Aitchison 1987; Hankamer 1989; Henderson 1985, 1989; Laudanna and Burani 1985; Segui and Zubizarreta 1985; Taft and Forster 1975).
Lexical-level representation of morphologically complex words: ... by Cieslicka, Anna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
95 Paperback Second language acquisition; 23 P118 Eleven international academics, researchers, and independent scholars--the majority from Central Europe--contribute ten chapters on processes in the second language mental lexicon, including insights from psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and educational linguistics.
Second language lexical processes; applied linguistic and ... by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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