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MENTAL LEXICON

The term mental lexicon is used to refer for the vocabulary of an individual that is represented in his or her brain.The words or lexicon items that an individual learn or saved in somewhere in the brain.When person uses a word while speaking or writing he or she retrieves it from the brain. A word mental lexicon is different from ordinary dictionary.In an ordinary dictionary lexicon items or words are entered in an alphabetical order with minimum information .But mental lexicon contains a lot of information regarding a words pronunciation, spelling,grammatical category usage and all the aspects of meaning are stored in the mental lexicon.Therefore this is almost like an encyclopedia. Though there is a lot debate on issues related to the concept of mental lexicon nobody revise the fact that such a system exist in the brain.