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BackgroundHearing-impaired listeners often have difficulty understanding complex sentences. It is not clear if perceptual or cognitive deficits have more impact on reduced language processing abilities, and how a hearing aid might compensate for that ...
Luise Wagner +4 more
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I propose an apparatus for handling intrasentential change in context. The standard approach has problems with sentences with multiple occurrences of the same demonstrative or indexical. My proposal involves the idea that contexts can be complex. Complex
B Geurts +12 more
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Complexity of Scott sentences [PDF]
We give effective versions of some results on Scott sentences. We show that if $\mathcal{A}$ has a computable $ _ $ Scott sentence, then the orbits of all tuples are defined by formulas that are computable $ _ $ for some $
Alvir, Rachael +2 more
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Acquisition of Object Relative Clauses by Turkish Adult Learners of English
The acquisition of complex sentences plays an important role in first and second language studies because evidence of complex sentences in the field of theoretical and applied language is still evolving.
Eser ÖRDEM
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This study was aimed to analyse errors made by learners in writing four types of complex sentences; complex sentences with adjective clauses, noun clauses, adverb clauses, and multiple-clause structures in an Essay Writing class.
Adaninggar Septi Subekti
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Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities [PDF]
Understanding language goes hand in hand with the ability to integrate complex contextual information obtained via perception. In this work, we present a novel task for grounded language understanding: disambiguating a sentence given a visual scene which
Barbu, Andrei +4 more
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Patterns in syntactic dependency networks [PDF]
Many languages are spoken on Earth. Despite their diversity, many robust language universals are known to exist. All languages share syntax, i.e., the ability of combining words for forming sentences. The origin of such traits is an issue of open debate.
Ferrer Cancho, Ramon +2 more
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The influence of pragmatic function on children's comprehension of complex because- and if-sentences
IntroductionIn complex adverbial sentences, the connectives because and if can perform different pragmatic functions (e.g. Content, Speech-Act), although this is often overlooked in studies investigating children's acquisition of these connectives.
Heather C. P. Lemen +2 more
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Phrases complexes et maturité syntaxique : une comparaison entre des écrits d’élèves de 13 et 16 ans
This article explores Quebec students’ syntactic composition of texts and their ability to build complex sentences. The analysis of 20 texts shows that the high-achieving students aged 13 and 16 years old (8th and 11th grade) exhibit similar ...
Marie-Claude Boivin +2 more
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The question of qualifying the meaning of allied means, which in traditional grammar are defined as syntactic markers of “immediate” or “fast” succession, and in the part of corpus studies are considered as connectors of “immediate succession”, is ...
N. V. Semenova +2 more
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