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Linguistic focus affects eye movements during reading [PDF]

open access: yesMemory & Cognition, 1997
In two experiments, we explored how readers encode information that is linguistically focused. Subjects read sentences in which a word or phrase was focused by a syntactic manipulation (Experiment 1) or by a preceding context (Experiment 2) while their eye movements were monitored. Readers had longer reading times while reading a region of the sentence
Stacy Birch, Keith Rayner
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An Overview of Turkish Teaching in the Context of Language Policies

open access: yesSakarya University Journal of Education, 2022
Language policy is the set of rules created to affect the language of a society, and the function, structure or acquisition of linguistic diversity. It determines the place of language in the social structure.
Aleyna Vildan Tunçbilek
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Plural or singular? Linguistic discrepancies in grammatical numbers in textbooks of mathematics used in Italian primary and secondary schools

open access: yesItaliano a scuola, 2021
Starting from the corpus of the project Italmatica. Comprendere la matematica a scuola, fra lingua comune e linguaggio specialistico, the present contribution proposes an analysis of the expression of the gram­matical category of number within specific ...
Michele Canducci   +2 more
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IEST: WASSA-2018 Implicit Emotions Shared Task [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Past shared tasks on emotions use data with both overt expressions of emotions (I am so happy to see you!) as well as subtle expressions where the emotions have to be inferred, for instance from event descriptions.
Balahur, Alexandra   +3 more
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REVISITING THE EFFECTS OF SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT AND DISCIPLINES ON THE USE OF HEDGES IN RESEARCH ARTICLES

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2015
This study examines whether sociocultural context and discipline substantially affect usage of hedges in research articles. The corpus for the study consists of 104 research articles from two languages (English and Indonesian) with the disciplines of ...
I Nyoman Suka Sanjaya
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On the accuracy of language trees. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
Historical linguistics aims at inferring the most likely language phylogenetic tree starting from information concerning the evolutionary relatedness of languages.
Simone Pompei   +2 more
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Appraisal Framework in Analyzing Attitudinal Resources in Vishal Garg’s Apology Letter

open access: yesLingual, 2022
This paper contains a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) analysis of the apology text of the CEO of Better.com. Vishal Garg. He apologized for his dismissal of 900 staff through a zoom meeting.
Fikry Prastya Syahputra   +1 more
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BUSINESS DISCOURSE STUDIES IN THE ‘NEW’ AND ‘FAST’ CAPITALISM: APPROACHES AND INVESTIGATION METHODS

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai: Geographia, 2019
The complex and changing linguistic context cannot be confined or constrained to a single approach or theory. It is, thus, the purpose of the present article to argue in favour of the fluidity, flexibility, dynamic and variable background against which ...
Silvia Blanca IRIMIEA
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How Age and Linguistic Competence Affect Memory for Heard Information [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
The short-term memory performance of a group of younger adults, for whom English was a second language (young EL2 listeners), was compared to that of younger and older adults for whom English was their first language (EL1 listeners). To-be-remembered words were presented in noise and in quiet.
Schneider, B.A.   +3 more
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Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning unclear.
Crompton, Peter, Lanteigne, Betty
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