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What does lexical mean?

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  1. (linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
  2. (linguistics) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
  3. (linguistics) denoting a content word as opposed to a function word
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Oral-language assessments must measure the essential elements of knowing a language, not just lexical knowledge.
The paper considers similarities and differences between names in Hebrew and Arabic as a specific lexical group within their vocabularies.
In terms of lexical category ambiguity, languages do differ in the extent to which their word-forms are specialized for syntactic function.
Finally, in the original table there were only three cells in the relative clause affirmative realized with default lexical tone.
To make the issue more concrete, suppose that a researcher wants to test the effects of language frequency on lexical decision times.
In this paper, I propose an account of the allomorphic alternation of the lexical passive construction in terms of Information Theory.

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