Publications
Publication details [#32960]
Verspoor, Marjolijn H. and Wander Lowie. 2003. Making Sense of Polysemous Words. Language Learning 53 (3) : 547–586. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
0023-8333
Journal WWW
Annotation
The findings of a range of vocabulary experiments involving Dutch learners of English demonstrate that providing a core sense generates better guessing and longterm retention of figurative senses of polysemous words.