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Process of setting up associations for a word or phrase so that when the listener/reader hears/sees the word or phrase again they automatically recall a version of what they heard/saw before.
Words universal to all Earth's natural languages, their meaning ordinarily learned during development solely through the way contemporaries use them, serving as a basic set of words by which lexicographers could, in principle, define without circularity all the other words in a given language's lexicon.

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A definition or brief description of Semantic primes.

Words universal to all Earth's natural languages, their meaning ordinarily learned during development solely through the way contemporaries use them, serving as a basic set of words by which lexicographers could, in principle, define without circularity all the other words in a given language's lexicon.