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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract 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
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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Score Variation in Multiple-Choice Tests of Grammar: On the Effect of Gender and Stem Type [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014 This paper examines the effect of gender and type of stem on Iranian test takers’ performance on the grammar section of a nation-wide language proficiency test. In so doing, the scores of 2931 examinees (1107 female and 1824 male) who sat Tarbiat Modares
Mohsen Shirazizadeh, Gholam Reza Kiany
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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2009 Consciência morfológica é a habilidade de refletir sobre os morfemas que compõem as palavras. Esta habilidade está associada à leitura e escrita e parece ser particularmente importante para compreensão de texto e leitura contextual, visto que além das ...
Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da Mota +7 more
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Hierarchical Quantized Representations for Script Generation
, 2018 Scripts define knowledge about how everyday scenarios (such as going to a restaurant) are expected to unfold. One of the challenges to learning scripts is the hierarchical nature of the knowledge.
Balasubramanian, Niranjan +3 more
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The effect of high- and low-frequency previews and sentential fit on word skipping during reading [PDF]
, 2014 In a previous gaze-contingent boundary experiment, Angele and Rayner (2013) found that readers are likely to skip a word that appears to be the definite article the even when syntactic constraints do not allow for articles to occur in that position.
Angele, Bernhard +3 more
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English as a Heritage Language in Japan: Writing Development From Late Childhood to Adolescence
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, January/February/March 2026.Bilingual children and adolescents can develop strong writing skills in their heritage language. In a three‐year study of Japanese–English bilinguals in Japan, English writing scores matched or exceeded those of same‐age U.S. peers and improved each year. Writing development was supported by both home literacy practices and weekend schools.
Janice Nakamura, Suzanne Quay
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Ta'dib, 2020 The aim of this study was to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on students’ reading comprehension achievement between the students who were taught by using Cloze Strategy and those who were taught by using the teacher’s method ...
Meidiana Eka Putri
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The effectiveness of limited cloze test for students’ reading ability in narrative text : a quasi experimental study at eleventh grade of MA At-Tawaazun Pemalang in the academic year of 2015/2016 [PDF]
, 2016 In some Madrasah Aliyah, reading is still not easy. In fact, students of eleventh grades MA At-TawaazunPemalang have the problem to understand their English learning especially in reading. They are still lack of vocabulary.
Meiyenny, Fitri
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The Effect of Text Authenticity on the Performance of Iranian EFL Students in a C-Test [PDF]
, 2009 As part of growing efforts to understand factors affecting c-test this study aims to investigate the effect of text authenticity on the performance of Iranian EFL students in a C-Test. The C-Test is an integrative testing instrument that measures overall
Biglar Baygi, Amir +2 more
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Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Understanding speech in background music is a common real‐world challenge, particularly when vocals compete for linguistic processing resources. This study examined how the presence and intelligibility of sung lyrics influence semantic processing in autistic and nonautistic adults.
Jiayin Li +4 more
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