Making Sense of Polysemous Words

Language Learning

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 547-586

  Verspoor, Marjolijn ^a   Lowie, Wander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0042880593     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9922.00234     Document Type: Article

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