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.
Lexical principles guide the child in mapping new words to meaning by constraining the possible interpretations of new words that children must consider. Two (2) examples are the whole-object assumption and mutual exclusivity
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