Emergent properties of multilingual lexicons

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 620-644

  Meara, Paul ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33845206036     PISSN: 01426001     EISSN: 1477450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/applin/aml030     Document Type: Article

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