mental lexicon
Britishnoun
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This mechanism has to constantly choose words from what linguists call your mental lexicon, the dictionary in your head, using those two major criteria.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2012
When you're reaching into your mental lexicon and choosing something that you know has this cadence, has this syllable count, has this stress pattern, you know that intuitively because you've used the word before.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2012
Now, if you were gonna design a mental lexicon, a mental dictionary, that was really good for retrieving words for speaking, it would probably look like a thesaurus, right, with words grouped by meaning.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2012
I’m Bob Garfield with Mike Vuolo and today episode No. 19, titled “Here’s to You Mrs. Malaprop,” wherein we discuss what a common slip of the tongue might say about our mental lexicon.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2012
Only through reading—not listening to talk—can a youngster expand his or her mental lexicon enough to allow truly fluid reading, with its rapid line-by-line scanning and its effortless absorption of meaning.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2012
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