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Body Part Nouns in Expressions of Location in French
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In relation to inanimates, nouns that normally denote body parts when constructed in relation to an animate whole (pied ‘foot’, tête ‘head’, etc.) lose their literal meaning in French and acquire instead a spatial interpretation.
Isabelle Roy
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The Function of the Singular Form of Nouns in the Hungarian Language; pp. 122-130 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2014 The analysis and interpretation of grammatical number seems to be a very complex task, due to the diversity of tools to express it in various languages. The category of grammatical number exists in most languages.
Márta H. Varga
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study conducted linguistic analyses of the written corrective feedback (WCF) for Chinese as a second language (CSL) provided by chat generative pre‐trained transformer (ChatGPT) and human teachers (including preservice teachers and senior teachers).
Ling Zhang +2 more
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Experimental Support for a Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning [PDF]
, 2011 Modelling compositional meaning for sentences using empirical distributional methods has been a challenge for computational linguists. We implement the abstract categorical model of Coecke et al.
Grefenstette, Edward +1 more
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How abstract is risk for workers? Expertise, context and introspection in abstract concepts [PDF]
, 2016 Two studies were performed to test whether abstract concepts are grounded in experience and activate introspective/linguistic information. In Study 1, four groups of participants, each with different expertise in the domain of safety and
BORGHI, ANNA MARIA +2 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez +3 more
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All-Russian word paradigmatic aspect in the Arkhangelsk’s sub-dialect
Неофилология, 2019 The research is devoted to the consideration of the paradigmatic aspect of All-Russian nouns based on the material of the Arkhangelsk’s sub-dialects. We consider All-Russian nouns with rich polysemy in the Arkhangelsk’s sub-dialects, which have a large ...
Margarita K. Pak
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The Museum on the Edge of Forever [PDF]
, 2014 This article argues that understanding any space or site relies on a knowledge of its fourth dimension - the timescape. It will explore this by situating the investigation in the museum - a place of heightened contrivance which could easily be shallowly ...
Walklate, Jenny
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines multilingual practices in research interviews, focusing on English lexical insertions in Chinese‐language research interviews with teachers of Chinese in Australian secondary schools, and treating these code‐switches as analytically meaningful rather than incidental.
Chengwen Yuan, Tianwei Zhang, Gary Bonar
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“Tooth and Truth”: Brain Activation During Passive Listening to Concrete and Abstract Nouns [PDF]
The Open Behavioral Science Journal, 2011 The aim of this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was to investigate brain activation associated with the auditory perception of concrete and abstract German nouns during a passive listening task. This procedure allows us to investigate inherent linguistic properties common to either concrete or abstract concepts rather than cognitive ...
Weiss, Sabine +3 more
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