Together or apart: Learning of translation-ambiguous words

Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 749-765

  Degani, Tamar ^a   Tseng, Alison M ^b   Tokowicz, Natasha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

foreign vocabulary learning; order of acquisition; translation ambiguity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895854162     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000837     Document Type: Article

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