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Capital Gains: Effects of Word Class and Sentence Position on Capitalization Use Across Age
ABSTRACT Learning to capitalize in English requires identifying a word's type and sentence position. In two cloze studies (2021–2022), Australian students of all genders (95% White, monolingual) spelled words with one and two capitalization cues (proper nouns, sentence‐initial words) and no‐cue control words.
Emilia Hawkey +2 more
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AI is not seen through an unbiased lens. People tend to stereotype AI as competent and link it with socially advantaged groups—such as men, the wealthy, the young, and prestigious occupations—raising concerns that such perceptions may deepen existing social divides rather than bridge them.
Zixi Wang +4 more
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Tibetan Few‐Shot Learning Model With Deep Contextualised Two‐Level Word Embeddings
ABSTRACT Few‐shot learning is the task of identifying new text categories from a limited set of training examples. The two key challenges in few‐shot learning are insufficient understanding of new samples and imperfect modelling. The uniqueness of low‐resource languages lies in their limited linguistic resources, which directly leads to the difficulty ...
Ziyue Zhang +11 more
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Order Effects in Second Language Learning
Abstract We explore how general principles of learning apply to and combine with usage‐based approaches to language learning and teaching, with a focus on the effects of order of exposure to new information in second language (L2) instruction. Although the effects of input spacing and timing on memory and learning have been previously explored (see ...
Laurence Romain +2 more
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Abstract This study tested whether encouraging prediction enhances prediction in second language (L2) speakers. L2 English speakers listened to English sentences like The woman … will read/buy one of the newspapers while viewing the target (a newspaper) and distractor objects (a rose, a bowl, and a mango) on a screen and clicked on the target as ...
Aine Ito
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Prediction during language processing has been hypothesized to lead to processing benefits. These possible benefits have led to several prominent theories that center around prediction as an essential mechanism in language processing. Such theories typically assume predicting is better than not predicting at all, but do not always account for the ...
Julie Bannon +2 more
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When Meaning Matters Most: Rethinking Cloze Probability in N400 Research
Abstract The N400 component of ERPs is modulated by how predictable a word is, but predictability is usually quantified with lexical cloze —the probability that readers supply that exact word in offline sentence completion tasks.
Yana Arkhipova +3 more
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Same Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses?: An MEG Study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative Structures. [PDF]
Chacón DA +5 more
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Munich Sentence (MuSe) Database: Completion norms and audio recordings for 619 German sentences. [PDF]
Sterner EF, Stadler M, Knolle F.
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