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  1. SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF THE LEXICON Alan Juffs University of Pittsburgh This research was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, award number SBE-0354420 to the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. To appear in: Ritchie, W. and Bhatia, T. (eds.). The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. Amsterdam ...

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    Lexical semantics is concerned with inherent aspects of word meaning and the semantic relations be-tween words, as well as the ways in which word meaning is related to syntactic structure. This chapter provides an introduction to some of the main themes in lexical semantic research, including the nature of the mental lexicon, lexical relations, and...

    Semantics is the study of how language is used to represent meaning. More precisely, semantics aims to explain how literal meanings are linguistically encoded and decoded by speakers and hearers. Other approaches to meaning include pragmatics, which deals with how meanings are inferred in relation to context, and semiotics, which is a more general ...

    In the following sentences, decide which noun phrases might be used by the speaker as referring expressions. James bought a new bike. Emily might buy a cake. My daughter pointed at the dragon. Who opened the door to find nobody there? Choose two nouns, one animate, one an artifact, and create tree diagrams to illustrate hyponymy. Do you find any di...

  2. Sep 1, 2019 · Abstract. Lexical semantics is concerned with inherent aspects of word meaning and the semantic relations between words, as well as the ways in which word meaning is related to syntactic structure ...

  3. ENTAL LEXICON1 IntroductionAs this book is entitled The Bilingual Mental Lexicon, some terminological pr. liminaries become necessary. The ‘mental lexicon’ generally refers to the permanent store of words. in an individual’s memory. The mental lexicon stores the speaker’s declarative knowledge about the words an.

  4. The lexical approach to second language teaching has received interest in recent years as an alternative to grammar-based approaches. The lexical approach concentrates on developing learners' proficiency with lexis, or words and word combinations. It is based on the idea that an important part of language acquisition is the ability to ...

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  5. lexicon to attrition. Such evidence comes from three main sources, which we consider in turn: studies of the lexicon as words or vocabulary, comparisons of lexicon and grammar, and studies of multi-word units. The lexicon in second language attrition 295 The first source of evidence involves studies of the lexicon as words.

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  7. The notion of a lexicon as a reference list of words is familiar to anyone who has used a dictionary or studied a foreign language. However, there are a number of important differences between the mental lexicon and conventional diction-aries, designed by people for speciÞc purposes. In the words of Hanks (2000),

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