According to Noam Chomsky,the mental lexicon
A)contains only semantic meanings of each word.
B)contains morphemes and semantic meanings of each word.
C)contains semantic and syntactical information for each word.
D)contains the spellings and semantic meanings of each word.

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According to Noam Chomsky, the mental lexicon contains both semantic and syntactical (grammatical) information for each word, as language comprehension and production involve not only understanding the meanings of individual words, but also how they combine to form grammatically correct sentences. The mental lexicon also includes knowledge of word forms and inflections, as well as phonological information. Therefore, choices A, B, and D are incorrect as they do not include syntactical information.

According to Noam Chomsky,the Mental Lexicon