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How semantics works in Chinese relative clause processing: insights from eye tracking

Frontiers in Psychology
Recent years have witnessed much research on semantic analysis and syntactic anatomy in ordinary language processing. However, it is still a matter of considerable debate about when and how the semantic integration of single word meanings works and ...
Yan Liu, Chuanbin Ni
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Comments on Comments

Names, 1989
Lena Peterson's comments (Names 37: 83–92) misinterpret my main point (in Names 33 [1985]: 111–18) on the connection between names and other noun phrases. A printing error in the 1985 article also caused confusion for many readers.
Bengt Pamp
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A Bird's Eye View of English Grammar: Connecting the Dots in Two Dimensions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past few decades, discussions on grammar instruction have primarily focused on teaching methodologies, such as whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly, and whether the focus should be on form or forms. This paper, however, shifts the focus to grammar itself, aiming to provide a “shape” for pedagogical grammar.
Akira Tajino, Yoshitaka Kato
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The effects of textbook frequency, congruency, and word class on the processing of L2 collocations by Chinese EFL learners

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study examines the roles of L1-L2 congruency, frequency, word class, and proficiency in L2 collocation processing. An acceptability judgment task was conducted to evaluate how participants processed verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations across ...
Ni Li, Brent Wolter, Lianrui Yang, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia   +3 more
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A Kind of suspicious numeral in The History of Beyhaqi [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2016
Numeral adjectives include cardinal, ordinal, distributive and fractional ones, According to the type of the numeral adjective, the position of the numerals and the enumerated nouns are determined in a way that the numeral sometimes precedes the ...
Maryam Mahmoodi
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Optimizing the Effectiveness of Captioned Viewing for Incidental Second Language Vocabulary Learning: The Effects of Repeated Viewing and Reading Fluency

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined the effects of repeated viewing and reading fluency on incidental second language vocabulary acquisition through captioned video exposure. A total of 149 Japanese EFL learners watched a short animation with or without captions, varying in the number of repetitions (once, twice, or three times).
Satsuki Kurokawa, Takumi Uchihara
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A Bi-Polar Theory of Nominal and Clause Structure and Function [PDF]

, 2004
It is taken as axiomatic that grammar encodes meaning. Two key dimensions of meaning that get grammatically encoded are referential meaning and relational meaning.
Ball, Dr. Jerry T.
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Linguistic Variation across Instructional Segments in International Teaching Assistants' Discourse: A Corpus‐Based Analysis

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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Cumulative Testing for Learning Spoken Vocabulary

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Cumulative testing is known to improve vocabulary learning by integrating both new and previously introduced words in weekly quizzes. While evidence for its benefits is promising, prior research has primarily focused on the written mode of vocabulary, with target words studied, practiced, and tested in the visual mode only.
Ryo Maie, Takumi Uchihara
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Enhancing automatic text summarisation by resolving anaphora and identifying abstract and concrete nouns [PDF]

Revista Română de Informatică și Automatică
The primary goal of text summarisation is to distil the most important details and turn them into a brief version that still captures the source material’s main points.
Sanah Nashir SAYYED, Namrata MAHENDER
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