Sentence examples for lexical system from inspiring English sources

The lexical system holds something like 60,000 words.

This "lexical" system is used by our primate relatives, such as chimpanzees.

According to many linguists, "we basically began with a lexical system, like monkeys, which use isolated utterances like 'snake'leopardand'eagle'eagle'," says Miyagawa.

The analysis of aphasic language patterns has also been used to support more specific claims about the processing structure and the organization of the lexical system.

At the most general level, the selective deficit or sparing of the semantic, the grammatical, or the phonological (or orthographic) properties of words has been used to inform theories of the architecture of the lexical system.

While a complex lexical term is a combination of elements, constituting a lexical-semantic unit and, thus, expressing a specific concept (for instance: 'material didático impresso' - 'printed didactics material'); a free phrase presents, in turn, a fragile stability in the lexical system (for instance: 'intercâmbio didático dirigido' - 'directed didactic exchange').

Language recognition systems are usually identified by the features they employ, e.g., acoustic systems, phonotactic systems, prosodic systems, and lexical systems.

We hypothesized that bilingual toddlers with a larger increase of TEs would have more practice in switching across lexical systems, boosting executive function abilities.

Here, we use word pairs like chimp/chimpanzee, which differ in length but have nearly identical meanings, to investigate the communicative properties of lexical systems and the communicative pressures on language users.

Interestingly, while the rhetorical tradition had looked at tropes as devices whose investigation was motivated by stylistic concerns, historical-philological semantics regarded the psychological mechanisms underlying the production and the comprehension of figures of speech as part of the ordinary life of languages, and as engines of the evolution of all aspects of lexical systems (Nerlich 1992).

It contrasts with the major thrust of research on modeling the evolution of lexical systems, which is to explain convergence in the community [41], [42].