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The study explores the acquisition of English polysemy by senior high school students and two factors that will have an influence on students’ acquisition of English polysemy, which include part of speech and meaning frequency. The participants are 148 Chinese senior high school students who are involved in a test including 30 English polysemous wo...
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... the 30 polysemy, 10 are nouns, 10 are verbs and 10 are adjectives. Table 1 contains the words used in this experiment. In the test, there will be 30 questions and each one has more than one choices to be selected by the participant (each one contains 5 meanings of a specific polysemous word and 2 to 3 of the meanings are correct) and they are arranged randomly instead of putting the words of same part of speech together such as questions 1 to 10 are about nouns, in order to ensure the objectiveness of the test result to the largest extent. ...