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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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How Do They Feel? Processing Others’ Emotions in Second Language Discourse
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Emotion that is implied rather than literally expressed requires the processing of literal and pragmatic information. Processing multiple information types is an easy, fast process in the first language (L1) but can be costlier in a second language (L2), especially when emotional content is involved.
Andrea González‐García Aldariz +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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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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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2012 Este estudo teve por objetivos investigar o ajuste de um Teste de Cloze ao modelo Rasch e avaliar a dificuldade na resposta ao item em razão do gênero das pessoas (DIF).
Katya Luciane Oliveira +3 more
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society, 2011 Abstract The purpose of this article is to investigate ways of making the cloze test more valid as an English proficiency test so that it can provide a better format for the cloze test especially to the non-native teachers in EFL environments. This investigation identifies ways of validity in terms of materials, deletion rates, item characteristics and
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A comparison of cognitive processing during cloze and multiple-choice reading tests using brain activation [PDF]
, 2016 This study compares cognitive processing and cerebral activation during a cloze test to a multiple-choice reading test. Data were obtained through an innovative neuroimaging technique (near-infrared spectroscopy, NIRS) and stimulated recall interviews ...
Ikeda Maiko +5 more
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Who did What: A Large-Scale Person-Centered Cloze Dataset
, 2016 We have constructed a new "Who-did-What" dataset of over 200,000 fill-in-the-gap (cloze) multiple choice reading comprehension problems constructed from the LDC English Gigaword newswire corpus. The WDW dataset has a variety of novel features.
Bansal, Mohit +4 more
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 528-564, June 2026.Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone +3 more
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