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ABSTRACT The comprehension–production vocabulary gap is a well‐documented hallmark of language development; however, anecdotal evidence suggests that this asymmetry may be reduced in children with Williams syndrome (WS). Here, we use empirical data to characterise the comprehension–production gap and computational modelling to investigate potential ...
Dean D'Souza +3 more
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Obtaining Parallel Sentences in Low-Resource Language Pairs with Minimal Supervision. [PDF]
Shi X, Yue P, Liu X, Xu C, Xu L.
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Abstract We employed structural priming to test whether targeted exposure to unambiguous form–meaning mappings led to learning of noncanonical word orders, specifically in object relative clauses, among 165 low‐to‐intermediate‐level L1 German L2 learners of English.
Holger Hopp +4 more
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In recent decades there has been a revolution in expert knowledge due to the emergence of new concepts and, therefore, of a great number of words, so general vocabulary has been gradually enlarged with terms traditionally limited to specialized discourse.
María Teresa Ortego Antón +1 more
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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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From Psycholinguistics to Computer Vision. A Comprehensive Review of Object Naming Data and Studies
ABSTRACT In recent years, much research has focused on what happens in the human brain when a perceptual stimulus, such as a picture, is converted into linguistic content, a word. This process is commonly referred to as object naming and is considered a crucial aspect of language processing, production, and cognition. It refers to the identification of
Alžběta Kučerová +1 more
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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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The macro- and microstructures of Russian-Tatar and Tatar-Russian dictionaries published in the second half of the 20th century have been considered. The detailed analysis of the dictionaries published in the Soviet period and Post-Soviet periods has ...
G.R. Safiullina
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A study on the classification of stylistic and formal features in English based on corpus data testing. [PDF]
Li S.
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Abstract Children today spend less time outdoors than previous generations, with potential consequences for health, learning and pro‐environmental attitudes. We assessed children's connection with and exposure to nature in a Mediterranean setting using the Nature Connection and Experience Index (NCEI), a composite measure that integrates an affective ...
Juan Antonio Ortega‐García +6 more
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