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438:. Compound words can have simple or complex morphological structures. Usually, only the head requires inflection for agreement. Compounding may result in lexemes of unwieldy proportion. This is compensated by mechanisms that reduce the length of words. A similar phenomenon has been recently shown to feature in social media also where hashtags compound to form longer-sized hashtags that are at times more popular than the individual constituent hashtags forming the compound. Compounding is the most common of word formation strategies cross-linguistically. 1153: 152:
Items in the lexicon are called lexemes, lexical items, or word forms. Lexemes are not atomic elements but contain both phonological and morphological components. When describing the lexicon, a reductionist approach is used, trying to remain general while using a minimal description. To describe the
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is the process by which new words, having gained widespread usage, enter the lexicon. Since lexicalization may modify lexemes phonologically and morphologically, it is possible that a single etymological source may be inserted into a single lexicon in two or more forms. These pairs, called a
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view of the lexicon. The evolution of lexicons in different languages occurs through a parallel mechanism. Over time historical forces work to shape the lexicon, making it simpler to acquire and often creating an illusion of great regularity in language.
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are new lexeme candidates which, if they gain wide usage over time, become part of a language's lexicon. Neologisms are often introduced by children who produce erroneous forms by mistake. Other common sources are slang and advertising.
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The term "lexicon" is generally used in the context of a single language. Therefore, multi-lingual speakers are generally thought to have multiple lexicons. Speakers of language variants (
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Semanticized phonetic matching (SPM): the target language material is originally similar to the source language lexical item phonetically, and only in a loose way semantically.
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Borrowing using a target language lexical items as the basic material for the neologization: phono-semantic matching, semanticized phonetic matching and phonetic matching.
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lexical item as the basic material for the neologization, listed in decreasing order of phonetic resemblance to the original lexical item (in the source language):
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A compound word is a lexeme composed of several established lexemes, whose semantics is not the sum of that of their constituents. They can be interpreted through
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Linguistic theories generally regard human languages as consisting of two parts: a lexicon, essentially a catalogue of a language's words (its wordstock); and a
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Suman Kalyan Maity, Ritvik Saraf and Animesh Mukherjee (2016). #Bieber + #Blast = #BieberBlast: Early Prediction of Popular Hashtag Compounds. In
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Phonetic matching (PM): the target language material is originally similar to the source language lexical item phonetically but not semantically.
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lexical items as the basic material for the neologization but still resembling the sound of the lexical item in the source language:
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Borrowing using the source language lexical item as the basic material for the neologization: guestwords, foreignisms and loanwords
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in American English would be understood by both American and British speakers, despite each group using different dialects.
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are lists of the lexicon, in alphabetical order, of a given language; usually, however, bound morphemes are not included.
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There are two types of borrowings (neologisms based on external sources) that retain the sound of the
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Various models of how lexicons are organized and how words are retrieved have been proposed in
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When linguists study a lexicon, they consider such things as what constitutes a word; the word/
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The following are examples of simultaneous external and internal lexical expansion using
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Kid's slips: what young children's slips of the tongue reveal about language development
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Comparative historical linguistics studies the evolution of languages and takes a
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devices that combine morphemes according to a language's rules. For example, the
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Innovation, the planned creation of new roots (often on a large-scale), such as
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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Phono-semantic matches, semanticized phonetic matches and phonetic matches
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The grammar of words : an introduction to linguistic morphology
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Morphological structure, lexical representation, and lexical access
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The following are examples of external lexical expansion using the
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This article is about the linguistic concept. For other uses, see
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Neologisms that maintain the sound of their external source
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Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon.
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Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew
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Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew
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A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
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A central role of the lexicon is documenting established
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The Final Word — Mechanism For Hebrew Word Generation
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Predicting New Words — The Secrets of Their Success
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Index

Lexicons
Lexicon (disambiguation)
vocabulary
language
knowledge
nautical
medical
linguistics
lexemes
Greek
grammar
bound morphemes
affixes
compound words
idiomatic
collocations
phrasemes
Dictionaries
lexemes
lemma
inflectional morphology
citation forms
irregular forms
Closed categories
determiners
pronouns
syntactic
nouns
verbs
semantic

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