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Perfetti, Charles A., Michal Balass, Donald J. Bolger and Eve Landen. 2008. Context Variation and Definitions in Learning the Meanings of Words: An Instance-Based Learning Approach. Discourse Processes 45 (2) : 1222–159.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Routledge
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This paper uses an instance-based theoretical framework to explain how both contexts and definitions affect new word meaning acquisition and reports on studies that explore hypotheses on learning from context.