THE BILINGUAL MENTAL LEXICON

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Course investigates word memory, meaning and change within language acquisition and teaching. Questions addressed include what it means to ‘know’ a word, how much vocabulary is needed for different language proficiency levels, the implications of cognates and false cognates and how language change over time may affect vocabulary learning and use. Research tools of corpus linguistics are applied and practiced, including the use of academic and other word lists, concordances in lexical frequency and collocational analyses and data driven learning for second language discovery and acquisition.