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Information load dynamically modulates functional brain connectivity during narrative listening
Scientific Reports, 2023 Narratives are paradigmatic examples of natural language, where nouns represent a proxy of information. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies revealed the recruitment of temporal cortices during noun processing and the existence of a noun ...
Rossana Mastrandrea +11 more
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Countability shifts and abstract nouns [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract The paper examines the mass-count distinction in abstract nouns, starting from the corpus-derived observation that most of the nouns that can be used in count or mass syntactic contexts (“elastic nouns”) are (arguably) abstract.
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Recontemplating the Concept of Figurative Adjunct and its Alternative Divisions [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2009 This study first defines "adjunct" and addresses the other types of adjuncts in traditional grammar. Then, the concept of "figurative adjunct" is reviewed and the study suggests another division for the other types of adjuncts. This division is exploited
navid firuzi
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Verbalabstrakta im Altirischen: Verbalnomina und verwandte Kategorien [PDF]
, 2010 In origin, Old Irish verbal nouns are verbal abstracts that have been grammaticalized in the course of the history of the Irish language and have become a fixed part of the verbal paradigm. On the other hand, verbal abstracts in Old Irish – like in other
Stüber, Karin
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The investigation of learners’ interlanguage could greatly contribute to the teaching of English as a foreign language and the development of teaching materials.
Xiangtao Du +2 more
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Linguistik Online, 2012 This paper seeks to contribute to the study of the vernacularisation process in late Middle English by measuring up to what an extent concrete and abstract noun suffixes (in line with Dalton-Puffer 1996) attach to either Germanic or Romance bases in the ...
Begoña Crespo
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Вестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета, 2022 The article considers a number of nouns certain word-building models, which are widespread in the modern Russian language; identify typological features of these ...
Irina N. Korsunova
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On the Connotations of аристократ, барин, and буржуа and Their Derivatives in the Russian Language
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2017 Thisarticledescribesthe namesof representativesof differentsocialstrata, whichacquiremetaphoricalcharacterisingmeaningsаристократ (Eng. aristocrat), барин (Eng. barin, gentleman) andбуржуа (Eng. bourgeois). The author analyses semantic interpretations of
Olga Yevgenyevna Frolova
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Children’s preference for HAS and LOCATED relations: A word learning bias for noun–noun compounds [PDF]
, 2010 The present study investigates children’s bias when interpreting novel noun–noun compounds (e.g. kig donka) that refer to combinations of novel objects (kig and donka).
ANDREA KROTT +13 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This paper presents the results of an eyetracking study that uses the Visual World Paradigm to determine whether heritage speakers of Polish can use grammatical gender cues to facilitate lexical retrieval of the subsequent noun during real time ...
Zuzanna Fuchs
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