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21Lexical Analyzer — Lexical Analyzer, LEX …
22lexical meaning — n. the meaning of a BASE1 (n. 15) in a paradigm, apart from any meaning it may acquire as part of a sentence (Ex.: the meaning of walk in walks, walked, walking) …
23lexical analysis — noun (computing) A stage during the compilation of a program in which standard components of a statement are replaced by internal codes (tokens) which identify their meaning • • • Main Entry: ↑lexicon …
24Lexical analysis — In computer science, lexical analysis is the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens. Programs performing lexical analysis are called lexical analyzers or lexers. A lexer is often organized as separate scanner and …
25Lexical set — A lexical set is a group of words which share a similar phonetic feature. The lexical set says nothing about the specific realisation of its feature (its exact pronunciation), only that all the words in that set will have more or less the same… …
26Lexical similarity — In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common… …
27Lexical diffusion — In historical linguistics, lexical diffusion is both a phenomenon and a theory. The phenomenon is that by which a phoneme is modified in a subset of the lexicon, and spreads gradually to other lexical items. For example, in English, /uː/ has… …
28Lexical decision task — The lexical decision task is a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments. The basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords. Although versions of the task had been used by… …
29Lexical density — In computational linguistics, lexical density constitutes the estimated measure of content per functional (grammatical) and lexical units (lexemes) in total. Specifically, this is a coefficient of the word type to token ratio of a text. The main… …
30Lexical category — In grammar, a lexical category (also word class, lexical class, or in traditional grammar part of speech) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items ), which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour …
