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Laufer, Batia – IRAL, 1990
Explores factors affecting the ease or difficulty with which new words are learned in a second language, focusing on such intralexical factors as pronuncability, length, parts of speech, inflexional complexity, derivational complexity, semantic features, abstractedness, specificity, idomaticity, register restrictions, and multiple meaning. (52…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Semantics
