LING 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Machine Translation, Part Of Speech, Speech Perception
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Lexicon knowledge stays the same over time, and we continue learning. Each lexical entry is connected to others more. For a given word a mental lexicon is: Info on how to form related words. Main classes of words in the mental lexicon. Affixes that the word has or that can be added to it. The word"s position in a phrase or a sentence. Activation of an entry in the mental lexicon. Some words can function in multiple parts of speech. Morphemes and syllables are not the same thing. Always has to be connected to a root. Inflection; adds grammatical property/meaning to the word, but doesn"t change the lexical meaning. 3 lexical categories: meaning of the word, morphemes of the actual word. 3: morpheme attachment to lexical category, derive the word then inflect it. Make sure your story accounts for everything. Prefix my - no your - mo i-his. Morphology allows to create new words that enter our lexicons.
