Emergent Properties of Multilingual Lexicons
Applied LinguisticsPublished 22 November 2006
Paul Meara
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It is argued that working with very explicit and over simplified models of lexicons might sometimes have advantages over working with more realistic but vague models, whose detailed workings are under-specified.
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Journal Article Emergent Properties of Multilingual Lexicons Get access Paul Meara Paul Meara University of Wales Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 27, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 620–644, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/aml030 Published: 01 December 2006 Article history Accepted: 01 June 2006 Published: 01 December 2006
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