"mental lexicon" is a correct and commonly used term in written English.
It refers to an individual's internal collection of words and their meanings that have been acquired through language learning and experience. One can use this term when discussing language processing, vocabulary acquisition, and linguistic competence. Example: "In order to improve one's language proficiency, it is important to expand and continually update their mental lexicon through exposure to new words and contexts."
Semantic memory, essentially the "mental lexicon", recording abstract, generic knowledge about objects and events in general.
It is suggested that such networking would be irrelevant to the construction of traditional desktop dictionaries but not to models of the mental lexicon.
However, lexical access research has largely been limited to understanding how literal words are accessed and processed in the mental lexicon.
Two areas of current controversy are the possibility of phonological underspecification in the mental lexicon and the nature of the mapping mechanism from the speech signal to the abstract lexical entry.
The most obvious examples are social and collaboration networks but the language and the related mental lexicon they use, or the physical map of their territory can also be interpreted as networks.
Remove the phrase "It goes without saying" from your mental lexicon, because it is total rubbish.
The authors suggested that words of different form classes may be organized differently in learners' mental lexicon.
Obviously, collocations constitute an essential section of vocabulary knowledge in multiple models of mental lexicon (Nation 2001).
Several studies have shown that speakers are sensitive to the absolute and statistically gradient phonological patterns in their mental lexicon.
Little research, however, has been conducted on possible implications of those research findings about bilingual mental lexicon for assessing learners' L2 network knowledge with WAF tests.
The bilingual mental lexicon literature suggests that L1 and L2 lexicon are closely related with respect to not only form-meaning connections but also word relationships.
