Phonemic repetition and the learning of lexical chunks: The power of assonance

System

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-436

  Lindstromberg, Seth ^a   Boers, Frank ^b  

^a Hilderstone College   (United Kingdom)

^b Erasmus University College Brussels   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assonance; Foreign language teaching; Lexical approach; Lexical memory; Mnemonic effect; Phonemic repetition; Phonological patterning

Indexed keywords

EID: 48149103045     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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