Cloze, Frequency, Surprisal, or Plausibility? A Comparative Analysis of Predictors for Local Ambiguity Resolution. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract This study investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of garden‐path sentences by examining the influence of verb/structural bias, cloze probability, surprisal, and plausibility. Using self‐paced reading with yes/no comprehension questions, we analyzed a structurally diverse set of 11 types of ambiguous and unambiguous ...
Ceháková M, Chromý J.
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Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Cassani G, Colombo M.
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Chinese Readers Process Word Class of Parafoveal Words During Sentence Reading. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract The present study aimed to investigate the parafoveal processing of word class in Chinese reading, focusing on how grammatical category consistency affects word recognition. The gaze‐contingent boundary paradigm was adopted in an eye‐tracking study. In each sentence, a parafoveal target word was replaced with three types of previews: identical
Qi Z, Xi Y, Pan J.
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Evaluating Different Scoring Methods for the Speeded Cloze-elide Test: The Application of the {R}asch Partial Credit Model [PDF]
Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2022 Cloze-elide tests are overall measures of both first (L1) and second language (L2) reading comprehension and communicative skills. Research has shown that a time constraint is an effective method to understand individual differences and increase the ...
Effatpanah, Farshad, Baghaei, Purya
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Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2005 The present study was an attempt to investigate varieties of cloze test and C-test as measures of reading comprehension ability. It aimed at comparing the performances of subjects on different cloze and C-test Forms constructed from the same passage.
a rostamzadeh
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Constructing Cloze Questions Generatively
2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2023 8 pages, 5 figures,5 tables, 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
Yicheng Sun, Jie Wang 0002
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The Effect of EQ and Gender on Oral Cloze Performance of Simultaneous Interpreting Students [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2019 This research sought to investigate the relationship between simultaneous interpreters’ oral cloze performance, their emotional intelligence, and gender.
Gholam Reza Tajvidi, Sima Ferdowsi
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Validade do Cloze enquanto técnica de avaliação da compreensão de leitura
Estudos Interdisciplinares em Psicologia, 2016 O Cloze tem sido usado como uma medida de compreensão de leitura pela omissão de algumas palavras de um texto, que devem ser completadas pelo leitor. Este trabalho buscou evidência de validade para dois textos baseados na técnica de Cloze por meio da ...
Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos Santos +1 more
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Assessment of Metatextual Awareness and its Prediction of Reading Comprehension
Psicologia, 2019 This study aimed to reveal evidence of the validity of the Assessment Questionnaire of Metatextual Awareness (QACM). The main objective was to verify whether metatextual awareness could predict reading comprehension, and the secondary objectives were: to
Neide de Brito Cunha +1 more
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Sentence contexts and cloze probabilities for Brazilian Portuguese children and adolescents.
PLoS ONE, 2020 PurposeIn this study we investigated a set of 100 sentence contexts and their cloze probabilities to develop a database of linguistic stimuli for Brazilian Portuguese children and adolescents.
Natalia Freitas Rossi +6 more
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