Knowing a Word (A) Flashcards
Vocabulary falls into which three areas?
Lexical entries
lexical storage
lexical access
What are lexical entries?
information that we need to store in our mind about a lexical item
What is lexical storage?
How lexical items stored in relation to each other?
What is lexical access?
The process that allows us to receive lexical items when we need them.
What is a lexicon?
A personal vocabulary store
What is a lexicon made up of?
Lexicon entries.
What is a content word?
Words that carry meaning, they are referred to as lexical words.
What is a function word?
Words which do not have a clear meaning but which contribute to the syntactic structure of the text
Evidence from brain imaging suggests that function words may be stored and processed separately from…..?
Content ones
The meaning component of a lexical entry is sometimes referred to as its…..?
Lemma
The lemma contains….?
Syntactic information about a word
