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Investigating the Relationship between the Morphological Processing of Regular and Irregular Words and L2 Vocabulary Acquisition

Ahmed Masrai, Jim Milton

International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, Volume: 4, Issue: 4, Pages: 192 - 199

Swansea University Author: Jim Milton

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DOI (Published version): 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.4p.192

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Word formation in Arabic is rather different from English and relies more heavily on derivation rather than word creation. This study tests whether this difference may impact on the learning of words in English. Results of the study suggest that words that are irregularly derived in English are subj...

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Published: 2015
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