lexical access

collocation in English

meaningsoflexicalandaccess

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withaccess.
lexical
adjective
uk
/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/
us
/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/
relating ...
See more atlexical
access
noun[U]
uk
/ˈæk.ses/
us
/ˈæk.ses/
the method or possibility of getting near to a place ...
See more ataccess

(Definition oflexicalandaccessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflexical access

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Processing interactions andlexicalaccessduring word recognition in continuous speech.
From theCambridge English Corpus
More specifically, the number of slips duringlexicalaccess, verb formation and phonological encoding is inversely related to learners' proficiency level.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They appeared to rely heavily onlexicalaccessof the words in spelling.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This second process is consistent with our early conceptualization of the completion oflexicalaccess.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A processing model oflexicalaccesssuch as the one described in detail in the target article is not necessarily a theory about brain mechanisms.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In the latter, such factors aslexicalaccess, automaticity, grammatical competence, topic familiarity, and vocabulary knowledge may all influence speaking rate.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In the second experiment,lexicalaccessfor some words was accelerated but was not more automatic.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thus, according to interactive models oflexicalaccess, early phonological facilitation may be localized at the word form level.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Exploring the time course oflexicalaccessin language production : picture-word interference studies.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For the main analysis, a definition was scored as correct or incorrect, taken to indicate successful or unsuccessful\\failedlexicalaccessrespectively.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, on closer inspection, each seems to involve some aspect of postlexical processing that goes beyondlexicalaccess.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Exploring the time course oflexicalaccessin language production: picture-word interference studies.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, the experimental literature on function word and content wordlexicalaccesstimes does not support this.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Furthermore, the available evidence from these two other domains suggests that there may be similarities in terms oflexicalaccessmechanisms as well.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This resulted in more instances of failedlexicalaccess.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, we will discuss our results within alternative models oflexicalaccessin the general discussion.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In other words,lexicalaccesswould be nonselective at the form (orthographic) level but selective at the semantic level.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We therefore predicted that context would have a direct and fundamental impact on the processes oflexicalaccess.
From theCambridge English Corpus
According to context-independent theories, sentence context does not exert a direct effect on the processes oflexicalaccess.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition oflexical
Go to the definition ofaccess
See other collocations withaccess