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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lexical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
▪ Thus, the lexical access component may have to match each word against every possible alignment of the input with the lexicon.
▪ Our first aim was to examine the lexical access components of a number of existing speech recognition systems.
▪ This process is known as lexical access.
▪ Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access.
▪ In understanding spoken language, lexical access is achieved by using information from the acoustic representation of a word.
▪ We am concerned with the theoretical and practical motivations behind the development of the lexical access component used here.
▪ It concentrates just on lexical access - there is no syntactic or semantic component - and its lexicon contains only 211 words.
ambiguity
▪ Bottom-up parsers are very susceptible to problems arising from lexical ambiguity.
▪ In Chapters 5 and 6 the Chart is allowed to run to completion in order to determine the worst-case effects of lexical ambiguity.
content
▪ Each sentence could be studied in isolation and be analysed in terms of grammatical construction, lexical content and so on.
▪ Such examples confirm the view of the infinitive proposed here because they evoke its lexical content as something prospective.
▪ Informally, these are rules which change the form of a basic sentence type without changing its lexical content.
entry
▪ A dictionary contains lexical entries for a large number of words.
▪ The system's linguistic knowledge is expressed by means of declarative rules and lexical entries.
form
▪ Light is therefore, according to the test, an ambiguous lexical form, and 10 and 11 manifest different senses.
▪ In all the above cases, the lexical form in question has only one established sense.
▪ A lexical unit is then the union of a lexical form and a single sense.
information
▪ The use of a morphologically-based lexicon can lead to a large reduction in the storage requirements for the lexical information.
▪ Representation of lexical information and lexical coverage.
▪ Even if lexical information can be used to limit subsequent registrations, it will not be done on a word-by-word basis.
▪ The lexical information for the constituent words is probably incorrect in the environment of the compound, leading to errors.
▪ Even if one does know that a compound exists there is no guarantee that the lexical information will be available.
item
▪ These lexical items act upon the grammar to constrain the temporariness sense since as lexical items they denote temporary activities.
▪ But the only difference between these two sentences lies in the choice of the lexical item as object.
▪ Like many distinctions, that between open and closed classes of lexical items is not an absolute one.
▪ Again, signer 2 differed notably from the others in his inability to use two lexical items simultaneously.
▪ These often show a dissociation between the stem of a lexical item and its affix.
▪ Word order is not the only conceivable grammatical device for enhancing the indexical precision of lexical items.
▪ It can be marked by very low pitch, even on lexical items, loss of amplitude and a lengthy pause.
meaning
▪ In the second place, the modal meaning is derivable from the canonical lexical meaning but not the other way round.
▪ Structural semantics refers to the way in which lexical meanings combine to produce complex semantic expressions.
▪ The conceptual or lexical meaning is sufficient for its indexical purpose on this occasion.
▪ These articles, definite and indefinite, now increase the specificity of the lexical meaning of the nouns.
semantics
▪ It may be wondered why it is necessary, or even advantageous, to have two sorts of unit for lexical semantics.
▪ However, they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics to proceed.
▪ At this level of specificity, therefore, these facts are of limited significance for a general study of lexical semantics.
unit
▪ We have been speaking, so far, of the effects of context on the meaning of a single lexical unit.
▪ We shall characterise a lexeme as a family of lexical units.
▪ Thus all the senses of mouth discussed earlier will represent lexical units belonging to a single lexeme.
▪ Hence it is not unnatural to speak of a lexical unit standing in a particular semantic relation to other lexical units.
▪ Most basic of all are lexical units which become operative in minimal, or neutral, contexts.
▪ From our point of view, all idioms are elementary lexical units.
▪ We can now re-define a lexical unit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A full sense-spectrum is not a satisfactory lexical unit: it does not, for instance, enter into any recognised lexical relations.
▪ But one can not simply associate high lexical density with writing, and low lexical density with speaking.
▪ For example, the validity of a string of phonemes depends on what is in the lexical data base.
▪ Further evidence that children are attentive to Conventionality comes from the repairs they make to their own lexical choices.
▪ Instead, there would be a set of lexical rules indicating which affix had to be added to produce each inflected form.
▪ It involves retrieval of single items from a lexical output system of the kind described in Chapter 6.
▪ Since reports were in sign the lexical identification of individual items often derived from the other parameters.
▪ The keys for lexical access are stressed syllables in the word corresponding to the input syllable type.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lexical

lexical \lex"ic*al\ (l[e^]ks"[i^]*kal), a. Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon. -- Lex"ic*al*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lexical

1833, from Greek lexikos "pertaining to words" (see lexicon) + -al (1). Related: Lexically.

Wiktionary
lexical

a. 1 (context linguistics English) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language 2 (context linguistics English) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary

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WordNet
lexical

  1. adj. of or relating to words; "lexical decision task"

  2. of or relating to dictionaries

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Wikipedia
Lexical

The adjective lexical refers to things concerning the words or lexicon of a language. Linguistics, the study of language, often uses lexical concepts.

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Usage examples of "lexical".

I know, that sentence is for all practical purposes meaningless, but I can use the lexical abundance of English to go on like that for hours.

English has rigorously preserved a lexical gap for the work that housewives and househusbands do, and for the role that they fill.

SICA NEO-REAL CRANE DOLLY and CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMAR-RIAGE and then more lexical terms and words speeding up to chipmunkish and then HELIATED and then all the way up to a sound like a mosquito on speed, and Gately tries to clutch both his temples with one hand and scream, but nothing comes out.

But labeling, controlled mutagen-tailoring of the submitted message, poly-dinucleotides, combinatorics, short chainstime-consuming, meticulous, brute lexical mop-up will get them through.

It sported a subject index, a lexical part and an alphabetically arranged series of in-depth essays authored by the best in every field of human erudition.

Most significantly however I suspect that the syllabary of Priest-Kings remains complex, and that experiments with unscented graphemes were never conducted, because, except for lexical additions, they wish to keep their language much as it was in the ancient past.

Intonation occurs in many languages, more so in those languages that do not have lexical pitch.

Speech melody must be processed by the listener in as much as lexical speech melody and intonational speech melody provide part of the semantic content of speech.

The perception of pitch is far more accurate than what is required for the perception of either lexical or intonation melodies.

Encountering Joyce we savor the long deliberation behind each of his lexical choices, with the result that our own pace in reading slows right down.

Americanism first recorded in 1840 and attacked as a needless lexical affectation within the year.

Gettysburg address also marked a small but telling lexical transition.

He passes counterfeit coinage in characteristic lexical sleight of hand smoothed by alliteration.

Instead, current thinking held that there was a lexical universe as well as a physical one, and bringing an object together with a compatible name caused the latent potentialities of both to be realized.

This confirms a long-held belief of mine that lexical order induces thermodynamic order.