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Lexical organization is the way in which the mental lexicon represents the relation between words and meanings.

Lexical principles refer to assumptions about how the lexicon works that are attributed to the child in order to explain how word learning is so successful and rapid.

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Lexical processes are used to identify letters and words

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Lexical selection refers to the phenomenon in which children's early vocabularies are restricted to words that use only those sounds that the child can produce.

Lexical-functional grammar is defined as a grammar in which structural relationships are built into enriched lexical entries rather than with transformational rules.

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Lexicon is the entire set of morphemes in a given language or in a given person''s linguistic repertoire. It is a mental store thought to hold a cognitive processor’s knowledge of words, including their spelling, pronunciation, definition, part of speech, and so on.

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Lexicon store refers to a "storehouse" of words that an individual knows or understands.

Leydig cells is defined as cells in the testes that produce testosterone. Leydig cells is also referred to as Interstitial cells.

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