LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lexeme, Lexical Decision Task, Bound And Unbound Morphemes
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A lexeme is the smallest or minimal unit of lexicon in a language that has some. A lexeme has a morphological form, semantics (or meaning) and a syntactic category. One lexeme can make up more than one inflection to form a set of many words known as inflected variants. For example, the lexeme play can make up many forms like play, playing, plays, and played. Snowflake: decomposed transparent compound word= meaning derived from two words. Mushroom: lexeme - opaque compound word= meaning not obvious from its parts. Decomposed inflectional= pluralizes but doesn"t change the meaning. Pickles: lexeme derivational bound morpheme = changes meaning. Lexical access is best described as how fast an individual identifies a word. Frequent words are accessed faster than rare words. A better comprehension of words enables faster lexical decision times and faster production of naming. Hall stated that we often use information from other words to identify some words.
