Synonym: dictionary, mental lexicon, vocabulary. Similar words: Mexican, dyslexia, flexible, perplexity, perplexing, inflexion, complexity, flexibility. Meaning: ['leksɪkɑn /-kən] n. 1. a language user's knowledge of words 2. a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them.
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(31) In secondary storage there will be a large, static lexicon of anything between 10,000 to 100,000 words.
(32) Rather than store the complete words in a lexicon, such systems store the probabilities of letter transitions.
(33) But if the lexicon is not complete, then neither is the syntax, semantics or phonology likely to be.
(34) By reducing the size of the lexicon the number of words that the author wrote that are missing from the lexicon increases.
(35) The resulting strings produced by applying the rules are searched for in the lexicon in the normal way.
(36) This root is then stored and may be accessed in the lexicon at run-time rather than determined on the fly.
(37) The mental lexicon is also involved in the production of written or spoken language.
(38) Nor could these problems be predicted from studies of the inherent confusability of the lexicon which concentrated on isolated words.
(39) There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
(40) It is known as a speech output system because there is evidence that a quite separate lexicon is involved in speech perception.
(41) It uses a 997 word lexicon, and a bi-gram grammar extracted from 900 test sentence templates.
(42) Unification-based grammatical formalisms tend to employ very detailed information within the lexicon.
(43) There is always the possibility that the input pronunciation will differ from the pronunciation in the lexicon.
(44) The initial design phase for a database to hold a lexicon of stratigraphical terms is almost complete.
(45) Thus, the lexical access component may have to match each word against every possible alignment of the input with the lexicon.
(46) The Chart model has a far larger lexicon, however, containing 4,000 lexical items.
(47) The tables show that this information is not restrictive across a large lexicon,(http://sentencedict.com/lexicon.html) especially for the words of commonly occurring lengths.
(48) Furthermore with a text recognition system, as the lexicon gets larger the problems increase.
(49) The number of word candidates suggested by the recogniser is dependent on the size of the lexicon.
(50) And what consequences do these principles have for children's acquisition of the lexicon?
(51) We have seen that a mental lexicon must contain semantic, phonological and orthographic information about words.
(52) From this it is deduced that the lexicon provides adequate but not complete coverage.
(53) Using the internal lexicon An orthographic analysis is not the only way of recognising and pronouncing a string of letters.
(54) Very large corpora and extensive processing are necessary to provide suitable information for a large lexicon using this method.
(55) Their intensive questioning, in fact, seems to coincide with two other developments in the lexicon.
(56) The use of a morphologically-based lexicon can lead to a large reduction in the storage requirements for the lexical information.
(57) Each meaning has its own pronunciation, and so the lexicon must be consulted before the appropriate pronunciation can be construed.
(58) The facility to add more words to the lexicon should also be considered, especially for proper nouns and technical terms.
(59) Many of the words in the lexicon have a high degree of syntactic ambiguity.
(60) It is not possible for a lexicon to provide full coverage of language.
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