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Lexicon is also a synonym for Dictionary or Encyclopedic Dictionary . For other uses, see Lexicon (disambiguation) . In Linguistics , the lexicon of a language is its Vocabulary , including its words and expressions. More formally, it is a language's inventory of Lexeme s.
When linguists study the lexicon, they study such things as what words are, how the vocabulary in a language is structured, how people use and store words, how they learn words, the history and evolution of words (i.e. Etymology ), types of relationships between words as well as how words were created. An individual's lexicon, lexical knowledge, or lexical concept is that person's knowledge of Vocabulary . SEE ALSO FURTHER READING
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