Abstract
This chapter explores the differences and similarities in lexical availability in two foreign languages, English and Spanish. The author compares eight semantic categories in a lexical availability task administered to Slovene students, learners of English and Spanish as foreign languages. She describes the most available words in learners’ lexical production in these two languages and addresses issues such as prototypicality, language proficiency and years of study of Spanish and English. An important finding in this study is the similarity in the word responses provided by the two groups of language learners on the prompts representing semantic categories. The similarities in learners’ responses points to the existence of semantic prototypes in Slovene students’ minds, regardless of the target language, or at least as far as English and Spanish are concerned.
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