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Talker-specificity and lexical competition effects during word learning [PDF]
The experiments reported in this thesis examine the time-course of talker-specificity and lexical competition effects during word learning.
Brown, Helen
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Semantic Bimodal Presentation Differentially Slows Working Memory Retrieval
Although evidence has shown that working memory (WM) can be differentially affected by the multisensory congruency of different visual and auditory stimuli, it remains unclear whether different multisensory congruency about concrete and abstract words ...
Jia Cheng +3 more
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In acquiring a meaningful and rich religious language, children need to build up semantic knowledge about religious words. Most religious concepts do not refer directly to visible entities.
Franziska E. Viertel, Oliver Reis
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Measuring inconsistencies can lead you forward. The case of imageability and concreteness ratings
According to the traditional view, both imageability and concreteness ratings reflect the way word meanings rely on information mediated by the senses. As a consequence, the two measures should and do correlate.
Sara eDellantonio +3 more
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Top 10 Photobooks of 2018 [PDF]
An annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases from 2018 – selected by 1000 Words Editor in Chief, Tim ...
Clark, Tim, 1000 Words
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Feasibility of A Novel Treatment of Abstract Verbs in Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech
Introduction Models of sentence meaning emphasize the central role of the verb (Fillmore, 1968; Miller, 1972). These models are the theoretical basis of language production treatments for persons with aphasia such as VNeST (Edmonds, Nadeau, & Kiran, 2009)
Dallin John Bailey +2 more
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Grounding abstractness: Abstract concepts and the activation of the mouth
One key issue for theories of cognition is how abstract concepts, such as freedom, are represented. According to the WAT (Words As social Tools) proposal, abstract concepts activate both sensorimotor and linguistic/social information, and their ...
Anna M Borghi +2 more
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The impact of semantic clustering on the learning of abstract words
It has been repeatedly argued among vocabulary researchers that semantically related words should not be taught simultaneously because they might interfere with each other.
Tomoko Ishii
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On the Effectiveness of Involvement Load Components on L2 Vocabulary Learning [PDF]
Objective: The involvement load hypothesis posits that the higher the involvement load of a task, the more effective it will be in improving students’ lexical learning. It does not differentiate between the different components of involvement load (need,
Zahra Memarnia, Abbas Zarei
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Title, abstract, key words and references in biomedical articles [PDF]
Scientists frequently communicate the results of their work in research reports. When writing scientific articles, authors must follow instructions and requirements of standard article format.
Brkić Silvija +2 more
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