Mental Lexicon For the most part, dictionaries do not fix or codify the words of a language, but rather reflect the words that native speakers use.

• A) Mental Lexicon For the most part, dictionaries do not fix or codify the words of a language, but rather reflect the words that native speakers use.
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Those words are encoded in what we will call the mental lexicon, the sum total of word knowledge that native speakers carry around in their heads.

• A) Those words are encoded in what we will call the mental lexicon, the sum total of word knowledge that native speakers carry around in their heads.
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This includes information about pronunciation, category, meaning, syntactic properties, level of formality, and the specific conditions under which we might use the word.

• A) This includes information about pronunciation, category, meaning, syntactic properties, level of formality, and the specific conditions under which we might use the word.
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speaking six-year-old knows 10,000 words, and the average high-school graduate knows around 60,000 words. (The average English)

• A) The average English
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Mental lexicon is not organized alphabetically like a dictionary

• A) Mental lexicon is not organized alphabetically like a dictionary
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Dictionary Entries Core and other words (Murray et al., 1888). Common Words occur in all registers of English, e.g., mother, dog, and walk.

• A) Dictionary Entries Core and other words (Murray et al., 1888). Common Words occur in all registers of English, e.g., mother, dog, and walk.
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Literary Words recognized when we read, but would not necessarily be used in daily conversation, e.g., omnipotent, etc.

• A) Literary Words recognized when we read, but would not necessarily be used in daily conversation, e.g., omnipotent, etc.
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Colloquial Words are used frequently in spoken language, but far less frequently in written or formal language, for example, grubby, etc. Nobody would dispute the place of core words in the dictionary. Deciding which of these uncommon words merit inclusion in the dictionary is a judgment call, the size of the dictionary, its intended audience, etc. It is difficult to pin down all words in a pervasive language similar to English.

• A) Colloquial Words are used frequently in spoken language, but far less frequently in written or formal language, for example, grubby, etc. Nobody would dispute the place of core words in the dictionary. Deciding which of these uncommon words merit inclusion in the dictionary is a judgment call, the size of the dictionary, its intended audience, etc. It is difficult to pin down all words in a pervasive language similar to English.
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Kinds of Morphemes Free and Bound Morphemes

• A) Kinds of Morphemes Free and Bound Morphemes
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A free morpheme can stand alone as a word and does not need anything attached to it to make a word

• A) A free morpheme can stand alone as a word and does not need anything attached to it to make a word
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Morphemes with definitions outside the language. (Lexical/Content Morphemes)

• A) Lexical/Content Morphemes
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A set of ordinary nouns, adjectives and verbs carry the “content” of the messages we convey,

• A) A set of ordinary nouns, adjectives and verbs carry the “content” of the messages we convey,
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Morphemes with purely grammatical purposes. (Functional Morphemes)

• A) Functional Morphemes
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They consists largely of the functional words in the language; conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns.

• A) They consists largely of the functional words in the language; conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns.
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cannot stand alone as a word – attached to other forms, (Bound Morphemes)

• A) Bound Morphemes
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It does not have any meaning without the free morpheme ‘cat’.Examples: un-, -less, -s, -er, -est.

• A) It does not have any meaning without the free morpheme ‘cat’.Examples: un-, -less, -s, -er, -est.
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These are used to make new words of a different grammatical category from the stem. Further, they change the definition of a word/class of a word. Example: the addition of the derivational morpheme ‘-ness’ changes the adjective ‘good’ to the noun ‘goodness’. Care + ful (careful). (Derivational Morphemes)

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These are not used to produce new words in a language, but rather to indicate aspects of the grammatical function (e.g., tense, number). (Inflectional Morphemes)

• A) Inflectional Morphemes
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different phonetic variations of a morpheme; (Allomorphs)

• A) Allomorphs
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formation processes in a language. (There is a lot of regularity in the word)

• A) There is a lot of regularity in the word
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