For this reason the mental lexicon is structured in terms of semantic relationships.

Early reading often involves significant expansion of a child's mental lexicon, which includes all the words the child has been exposed to and their meanings.

The meaning of a word is considered salient, if it is coded in the mental lexicon.

More recently, he has been using magnetoencephalography to study human language processing, particularly morphology and the mental lexicon.

However, not all scientists agree as to the utility of the mental lexicon as a scientific construct.

The active nature of the mental lexicon makes any dictionary comparison unhelpful.

Another states that the mental lexicon is "a collection of highly complex neural circuits."

Considering the first issue, most psycholinguists support the existence of a mental lexicon that contains knowledge about words.

The mental lexicon is also involved in the production of written or spoken language.

Lexical access is the way that people access the information in the mental lexicon.