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armazenados desta forma no léxico

English translation: stored this way [in each person\'s] lexicon

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Portuguese term or phrase:armazenados desta forma no léxico
English translation:stored this way [in each person\'s] lexicon
Entered by: zabrowa

14:15 Jan 11, 2015
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Linguistics / theoretical linguistics
Portuguese term or phrase: armazenados desta forma no léxico
Os casos de palavras paroxítonas terminadas em consoantes são interpretados como irregulares, o que tem sido tratado como armazenados desta forma no léxico pelo indivíduo.


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Paroxytonic words ending in consonants are classified as irregular. That is, their stress assignment is lexical.
zabrowa
Local time: 00:22
stored this way [in each person's] lexicon
Explanation:
We all have a "lexicon" in our heads or the words we have acquired/learned.

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Note added at 8 hrs (2015-01-11 22:52:58 GMT)
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Over 119,000 hits for "stored in the lexicon" - this is really a 5-level certainty.

The second example below explains that we don't have to store every word in the/our lexicon, we can recognize and use new words based on the rules we know about productive affixes.

Psycholinguistics/Lexical Access - Wikiversity
en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Psycholinguistics/Lexical_Access
Nov 7, 2012 - **Only words which carry meaning are stored in the lexicon; these words are stored associatively in the mind in relation to other items.**

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3110147327
Jürgen Handke - 1995 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
It contains **all those productive affixes required for the rule-based generation of words that are not stored in the lexicon**, that is the inflectional affixes and those ...
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 15:22
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stored this way [in each person's] lexicon


Explanation:
We all have a "lexicon" in our heads or the words we have acquired/learned.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 8 hrs (2015-01-11 22:52:58 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Over 119,000 hits for "stored in the lexicon" - this is really a 5-level certainty.

The second example below explains that we don't have to store every word in the/our lexicon, we can recognize and use new words based on the rules we know about productive affixes.

Psycholinguistics/Lexical Access - Wikiversity
en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Psycholinguistics/Lexical_Access
Nov 7, 2012 - **Only words which carry meaning are stored in the lexicon; these words are stored associatively in the mind in relation to other items.**

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3110147327
Jürgen Handke - 1995 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
It contains **all those productive affixes required for the rule-based generation of words that are not stored in the lexicon**, that is the inflectional affixes and those ...

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 15:22
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