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Refining key concepts of the Ontogenesis Model of the L2 lexical representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2022

Denisa Bordag ,
Kira Gor  and
Andreas Opitz
Denisa Bordag*
Affiliation:
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Kira Gor
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Andreas Opitz
Affiliation:
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
*
Address for correspondence: Denisa Bordag, Universität Leipzig, Beethovenstr. 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany. Email: denisav@uni-leipzig.de
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modellinglexical representationL2 acquisitionlexical developmentfuzziness

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , March 2022 , pp. 236 - 241
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