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de Bot, Kees; Paribakht, T-Sima; Wesche, Marjorie Bingham – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Explores the relevance of a model for second language (L2) lexical organization and processing, with particular attention to its mental lexicon components, i.e., concepts, lemmas, and lexemes; and organization. Argues that the process of inferring the features of unknown words in a reading passage can be described in terms of lemma construction,…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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Bialystok, Ellen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
The development of the concept of word is discussed in terms of specific advantages that might be available to bilingual children when compared with their monolingual peers. Three studies are reviewed in which bilingual children show more advanced understanding of some aspects of the concept of word than do monolingual children (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis