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Implementing the Lexical Approach

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Implementing the Lexical Approach: Putting Theory into Practice

Implementing the Lexical Approach: Putting Theory into Practice PDF The implementation of the lexical approach describes how the lexical approach works in the classroom. This book will inspire educators to reflect on what you are doing at all levels. The implementation of the lexical approach develops the theoretical position set out in Michael Lewis’ critically …

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Optimality Theory

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Optimality Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is \’optimal\’ if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in …

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