How are the words related in a study of lexical availability?

Abstract

The lexical studies not only allow to establish results and statistical analysis on the study of availability and lexical variation. But also, it can develop relations of the type networks and lexical-semantic constellations. The objectives of this research are to determine, based on the results of a larger investigation about lexical variation, 1) How are the words related in a study of lexical availability? 2) How are these words structured in lexical networks to form constellations? and 3) What are the associative relationships that govern them? For this article we will take the center of interest "Nature". With which it will be possible to obtain: a) The selection of words according to the lexical-statistical results, b) The relation that the words keep in the sample and c) The lexical associations that are generated in the linguistic system and that will be reflected in the same constellation. The relationship between the words is based on the mental lexicon. This is given by the frequency of appearance of each of the voices participating in the linguistic discourse and by the results of the words according to the lexical availability.