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reviews the psycholinguistic factors that affectease of learning of foreign language(FL)vocabulary andinvestigates their role in 47 students'learning of Germanunder Repetition,Keyword or “Own”strategy conditions.Native-to-foreign learning is shown tobe easier the more theFL words conform to the phonological (0.40\u003Cr\u003C0.63;p\u003C.01)and orthographic(0.28\u003Cr\u003C0.45;.05\u003Cp\u003C.01)patterns of thenative language.However,these relationships are lesspronounced(not significant)in foreign-to-native learning.The part ofspeech(0.44\u003Cr\u003C0.64;p\u003C.01)and the imageability  \n(0.37\u003Cr\u003C0.53;.05\u003Cp\u003C.01)of the concept are strong determi-nants of learnability,suggesting an important influence ofmeaningfulness.Keyword effectiveness,particularly in thecase of receptive learning,is influenced by the part of speechand imageability of the keyword.But keywords must alsoshare considerable acoustic similarity with their foreignwordstobeeffectiveremindersinproductive learning(r=0.61;p\u003C.01).Otherwise learners must practice these novelphonotactic and orthographic patterns to consolidate them.  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nWhy are some foreign language(FL)vocabulary items somuch easier to learn than others?Why is it easy to learn that theGerman word Friseur meanshairdresser yet much harder tolearnthat Zahlen means to pay?Why is it easy to remember that theGerman for trousers is Hose,and to forget that to rent is Mieten?  \nMany factors might affect the ease of FL vocabulary acquisi-tion(see Higa,1965 for an early review).In essence,the processof learning a FL word is to map a novel sound pattern(which willbe variable across speakers,dialects,emphases,etc.)to a particu-lar semantic field that may(or may not)have an exact equivalentin the native language.Even this rudimentary description impli-catesarange ofrelevantvariables:pronounceableness,familiaritywith semantic content,and clear labeling of that meaning in thenative language.We will briefly review established findingsconcerning such psycholinguistic variables before describing astudy that assesses their effects on vocabulary learning.  \n# PHONOLOGICAL FACTORS\n\nFAMILIARITY OF FEATURES  \nClearly,novice language learners are bound up in the ortho-graphic and phonological aspects of vocabulary.While nativespeakers'lexical entries are clustered semantically(as evidencedby free associations of the type top—>snow—>hill—>valley,etc.,learners often make associations driven by orthographic or phono-logical confusion,for example,béton->stupide(confusion withbete)or orchestre(confusion with baton)or téléphoner(confusionwith jeton)or Normandie(confusion with breton),etc.(Meara,1984).Similarly,Henning(1974)demonstrated thatin a vocabu-lary recognition task,more-advancedlearnersandnative speakersmadeerrorsindicating semanticclustering oflexicalitemswhereasless-advanced learners showed evidence of a predominance ofacoustic rather than semantic clustering.  \nmā  \nmother  \nmá         mǎ  \nhemp  \nEllis and Beaton  \nThree or four dozen different independent gestures of thearticulatory apparatus play distinctive roles in human speech(Wang,1971).Differentlanguages make use of different ranges ofarticulatory features.Thus difficulty arises when the FLlearneris faced with features not exploited in the native language.Forexample,the contrast between/u/and/y/in French pronunciationdifferentiates between utterances of au-dessous=below and au-dessus=above.This contrast is not exploited in English and thusEnglish learners of French must(a)learn to identify these unfa-miliar features to perceive speech and(b)develop new motorpatterns to accurately reproduce these in their own speech(Desrochers &Begg,1987).This leads to predictions at bothlanguage and word levels:  \n1.  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