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HOMONYMIC ADVERBS IN CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC TEXTS
The thesis analyses adverbs i Croatian- Glaglitic liturgical and non- liturgical texts from the fourteenth and the fifteenth century. We are disscussed with the reference to lexemes considered to be unverified adverbs (adverbs of time, direction, place ...
Tanja Kuštović
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ABSTRACT This study examines how second language (L2) teacher educators provide feedback on student teachers' (STs) microteaching performances. Although conversation analysis (CA) research has extensively analyzed classroom interaction, there has been limited focus on how CA‐specialized teacher educators shape STs' classroom interactional competence ...
Eunseok Ro, Mika Ishino
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Communicative Adaptations After Laryngectomy: Syntactic Complexity and Gesture Use
ABSTRACT Background Total laryngectomy (TL) results in the loss of natural voice, requiring alternative speech rehabilitation strategies such as tracheoesophageal speech. While voice and intelligibility outcomes after TL are well studied, less is known about the complexity of spoken language production and the role of co‐speech gestures in this group ...
Marise Neijman +4 more
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Maternal Child‐Directed Speech Toward Children With Infantile Spasm or West Syndrome
ABSTRACT Background Maternal child‐directed speech (MCDS) plays a critical role in early language and communicative development, yet little is known about how it adapts to neurodevelopmental conditions such as Infantile Spasms/West Syndrome (WS), particularly when co‐occurring with intellectual disability (WID) or autism spectrum disorder (WASD).
Le Normand M.T. +6 more
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Evidence Against Syntactic Encapsulation in Large Language Models
Abstract Transformer‐based large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of linguistic tasks. LLMs primarily combine information across words in a sentence using the attention mechanism, implemented by “attention heads:” these components assign numerical weights linking different words in the input to one ...
Thomas A. McGee +2 more
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Abstract Most recent commentators on Kant's Transcendental Deduction assume that the main purpose of the second part of the B‐Deduction (“BD2”) is to show that human intuitions must fall under categories for reasons connected with their spatio‐temporal form.
Michael Pendlebury
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Abstract This study explores how word frequency affects verb‐mediated prediction in L1 and L2 speakers, using a visual‐world eye‐tracking task. By manipulating frequency of nouns within subjects (higher; lower) and type of verbs used as predictive cues (semantically restrictive; neutral) in sentences (e.g., The {doctor/surgeon} {opened/moved} the box),
Haerim Hwang, Kitaek Kim
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The Gradability of ‘Conscious’
ABSTRACT Are some creatures “more conscious” than others? A number of consciousness researchers have aimed to answer this question. Yet some have claimed that this question does not even make sense. They claim that “conscious” (in the phenomenal sense) never occurs as a gradable adjective, meaning an adjective that permits degree expressions (“more f ...
Andrew Y. Lee, Poppy Mankowitz
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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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