lexical
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- adjective
- /ˈlɛksɪkəl/
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léxico
- Understanding the lexical meaning of words is essential for mastering any language.
- lexical processing
- lexical item
- lexical retrieval
If we're looking at the lexical order, what does that mean?
- If we're looking at the lexical order, what does that mean?
- I'm talking at a deeper level with the lexical capacity of the language.
- Here we need to bring up a, once again, an issue of translation, a important not only lexical but conceptual point.
- And it's also done something that they call LAT detection, which is lexical analysis type.
- Yeah, yeah, I, I see them more, more like that than I see the, the, the, the sort of verbal structure or the lexical structure of, of letters.
Examples
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If we're looking at the lexical order, what does that mean?
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And I think this is one of those cases because, you know, if we look at the, the lexical level of this term, right?
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Thus, his subjects were making lexical decisions while they continued to comprehend the remainder of the sentence.
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To reduce effects of lexical familiarity, sentences were constructed using a core vocabulary of items across all conditions.
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The basic principles of lexical activation have been characterized in the populations of typically developing adults.
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Subjects answered each comprehension question aloud after making a lexical decision to the preceding target.
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During the past decade, many psycholinguists have come to believe that lexical access of word meanings occurs independently of context.
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Future efforts are needed to replicate and expand our understanding of the relation of vocabulary to lexical-level literacy skills.
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Also consistent with Yuill (1996), morphological and lexical riddles were significantly associated with reading comprehension.
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To explore age-related changes in narrative discourse production, measures of lexical, syntactic, cohesion, coherence, and story grammar performance have been analyzed.
Academic text (2011)
Compounds
- Specialized
A collection of information about words, including meanings, forms, and links between words
- Specialized
A thing a word points to in the real world, like an animal or object, not its grammar use
How Verbal
Surface Forms
Morphology
lexical = lexicon (semi-transparent) = lex + ical
The word is clearly related to lexicon and the learned root lex-, but the stem is specialized and not fully transparent for average learners.
Etymology
The word lexical comes from the Greek root lexis meaning 'word', and you can see the same root in lexicon, a list of words or a dictionary. That's why lexical means 'of words' or 'about vocabulary', so we use it for things that relate to a language's words.