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mental lexicon

/ˈmentl ˈleksɪkən/

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/ˈmentl ˈleksɪkən/C1formalscientific
  • ruТермин из когнитивной психологии и лингвистики, обозначающий ментальное хранилище слов и их значений, произношений и синтаксических свойств, которым человек обладает в своей долговременной памяти.

A term from cognitive psychology and linguistics referring to the mental store of words and their meanings, pronunciations, and syntactic properties that a person possesses in their long-term memory.

  1. Mental dictionaryC1formal

    The mental store of information about words and their meanings, pronunciations, and syntactic properties, which speakers use to produce and understand language.

    ruМентальный лексикон

    • Psycholinguists study how the mental lexicon is organized and accessed.
    • When you hear a word, your brain searches your mental lexicon for its meaning.
    • A person's mental lexicon grows and changes throughout their life.