The development of polysemy and frequency use in english second language speakers

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 573-605

  Crossley, Scott ^a   Salsbury, Tom ^b   McNamara, Danielle ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Corpus linguistics; Lexical networks; Lexical proficiency; Polysemy; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954097882     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00568.x     Document Type: Article

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