The Development of Conceptual Representation for Words in a Second Language

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  • Judith F. Kroll
  • Natasha Tokowicz
چکیده

words will be slowed relative to concrete words, on average. Without additional research and/or a reanalysis of existing data, it is impossible to determine whether concreteness effects are localized at the lexical level, the semantic level, or both. 120

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تاریخ انتشار 2001