The Inhibitory Mechanism in Learning Ambiguous Words in a Second Language

Ambiguous words are hard to learn, yet little is known about what causes this difficulty. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between the representations of new and prior meanings of ambiguous words in second language (L2) learning, and to explore the function of inhibitory contr...

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Main Authors: Baoguo Chen, Yao Lu, Junjie Wu, Susan Dunlap
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00636/full