Word class influence on word association test results

International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 389-408

  Nissen, Henriette Bagger ^a   Henriksen, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

EFL teaching; Mental lexicon; Syntagmatic paradigmatic shift; Word association test; Word class influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750296054     PISSN: 08026106     EISSN: 14734192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1473-4192.2006.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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