Lexical representation of second language words: Implications for second language vocabulary acquisition and use

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-324

  Schwartz, Ana I ^a   Yeh, Li Hao ^a   Shaw, Moira P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognates; Cross language activation; Lexical ambiguity; Semantic representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950709384     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.3.3.04sch     Document Type: Article

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