ATS1338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Apple, Lexical Item, Lexical Semantics
9 Aug 2018
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Stored in the mental lexicon ( mind dictionary") A vast and intricately structured web of meaning relations. Mental lexicons also encompass some multi-word fixed expressions and larger constructions. This component of the lexicon may be quite large. Some morphological paradigms include multi-word expressions in some cells: Much of what we say about sense, reference etc, applies to both words and larger expressions. Default assumption meaning of larger units is built from meanings of words (morphemes) by regular processes. Reference: what a speaker actually intends their word to pick out in the world on a particular occasion of utterance. = two or more words with identical sense. English is rich with (near) synonyms: (think about associations) When new ( lexical item") information about words and their association is heard (e. g. from other people), things in your mental lexicon have to be shifted around to make way for the new knowledge.
