Which of the statements about the mental lexicon and lexical access is true?

a) Only one meaning of an ambiguous word (e.g., bank) is activated upon word presentation.
b) Low-frequency words are more quickly accessed than are high-frequency words.
c) For bilinguals, a given concept has only one entry in the mental lexicon.
d) The mental lexicon is part of semantic memory.


Answer: b

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