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mental lexicon vs knowledge

knowledge vs mental lexicon

mental lexicon and knowledge both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
mental lexicon Yes No No No
knowledge Yes No No No
As nouns, knowledge is a hypernym of mental lexicon; that is, knowledge is a word with a broader meaning than mental lexicon:
  • mental lexicon: a language user's knowledge of words
  • knowledge: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Other hypernyms of mental lexicon include cognition, noesis.
mental lexicon (noun) knowledge (noun)
a language user's knowledge of words the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Difference between mental lexicon and knowledge

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