Article WHY ARE SOME WORDS MORE DIFFICULT THAN OTHERS? — SOME INTRALEXICAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE LEARNING OF WORDS was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (volume 28, issue 4).
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Batia Laufer (1990) studied this question.