I'm writing a speech in Japanese about the difference between languages and
I've been trying to figure out the correct way to say "lexical gap" in
Japanese. Any ideas?
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Lexical Gap translation help!
It would usually be 「語彙的欠落{ごいてきけつらく}」、「語彙の欠落」、「語彙欠落」, etc.

In linguistics within the Japanese-speakng world, however, many technical
terms are often written both in English and Japanese. This is true of the
**_newer_** fields of study such as linguistics, computer science, psychology,
etc.

Thus, I might suggest that you consider wording such as 「語彙的欠落 (lexical gap)」,
「語彙的欠落 (英語では"lexical gap")」」, etc.
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