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Word association research and the L2 lexicon

Tess Fitzpatrick Orcid Logo, Peter Thwaites

Language Teaching, Volume: 53, Pages: 1 - 38

Swansea University Author: Tess Fitzpatrick Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/s0261444820000105

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Since its modern inception in the late nineteenth century, research on word associations has developed into a large and diverse area of study, including work with both applied linguistic and psycholinguistic orientations. However, despite significant recent interest in the use of word association to...

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ISSN: 0261-4448 1475-3049
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020
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