Event-related brain potential evidence for animacy processing asymmetries during sentence comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 The animacy distinction is deeply rooted in the language faculty. A key example is differential object marking, the phenomenon where animate sentential objects receive specific marking.
Aissen +52 more
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Are Linguistic Prediction Deficits Characteristic of Adults with Dyslexia?
Brain Sciences, 2021 Individuals with dyslexia show deficits in phonological abilities, rapid automatized naming, short-term/working memory, processing speed, and some aspects of sensory and visual processing.
Paul E. Engelhardt +3 more
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Hypothesis Only Baselines in Natural Language Inference [PDF]
, 2018 We propose a hypothesis only baseline for diagnosing Natural Language Inference (NLI). Especially when an NLI dataset assumes inference is occurring based purely on the relationship between a context and a hypothesis, it follows that assessing entailment
Haldar, Aparajita +4 more
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Investigating the Relatedness of Cloze-Elide Test, Multiple-Choice Cloze Test, and C-test as Measures of Reading Comprehension [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2014 Reading comprehension ability consists of multiple cognitive processes, and cloze tests have long been claimed to measure this ability as a whole. However, since the introduction of cloze test, different varieties of it have been proposed by the testers.
Simin Sattarpour, Parviz Ajideh
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Evaluating four readability formulas for Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017 For almost a hundred years now, readability formulas have been used to measure how difficult it is to comprehend a given text. To date, four readability formulas have been developed for Afrikaans.
Jansen, Carel +2 more
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Find a Reasonable Ending for Stories: Does Logic Relation Help the Story Cloze Test?
, 2018 Natural language understanding is a challenging problem that covers a wide range of tasks. While previous methods generally train each task separately, we consider combining the cross-task features to enhance the task performance.
Fu, Zhenxin +5 more
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Morphological differences between Bahasa Melayu and English: Constraints in students’ understanding [PDF]
, 2007 Teaching English language is a big challenge in Malaysia. Students are still unable to master or even comprehend the language even after eleven years learning the language at the primary and secondary levels.
Abdul Hamid, Nor Zakiah +3 more
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Event Representations with Tensor-based Compositions
, 2017 Robust and flexible event representations are important to many core areas in language understanding. Scripts were proposed early on as a way of representing sequences of events for such understanding, and has recently attracted renewed attention ...
Balasubramanian, Niranjan +2 more
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Early EEG correlates of word frequency and contextual predictability in reading [PDF]
, 2019 Previous research into written language comprehension has been equivocal as to whether word frequency and contextual predictability effects share an early time course of processing.
Hand, Christopher J. +4 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined English vocabulary learning by using three types of flashcards: paper flashcards, non‐gamified mobile application (app) flashcards (i.e., digital flashcards), and gamified mobile app flashcards (i.e., gamified flashcards) in a privately owned language institute in Iran.
Ali Soyoof +3 more
wiley +1 more source