mental lexicon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They exist only in your mental lexicon, and their meaning is determined by the meaning assigned by this lexicon.
From Washington Post
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
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