id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt v979v12178n Susan M Gundersen How Do Word Meanings in One's First Language Influence Learning of Similar Words in a Second Language? 2013 .txt text/plain 293 8 35 Results from both Experiments 1 and 2 confirm predictions of the Competition Model (2008) concerning the relative difficulty of differentiation versus unitization, and the effects of word frequency on L2 learning. This dissertation outlines two experiments aimed at investigating how adults learn words in a second language (L2) that do not have one exact equivalent in the first language (L1). cache/v979v12178n.txt txt/v979v12178n.txt