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Behavioral studies have demonstrated differences in the effect of constrained retrieval of semantic vs. non-semantic information on the encoding of foils.
Mingyang Yu, Can Cui, Yingjie Jiang
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Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention, the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities in Australia has not been much studied. In this paper, we look at metapragmatic
Wei-Lin Melody Chang +1 more
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Evidence for the influence of the mere-exposure effect on voting in the Eurovision Song Contest
The mere exposure, or familiarity, effect is the tendency for people to feel more positive about stimuli to which they have previously been exposed. The Eurovision Song Contest is a two-stage event, in which some contestants in the final will be more ...
Diarmuid B. Verrier
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Covid-19 Has Turned Home Advantage Into Home Disadvantage in the German Soccer Bundesliga
The main factors for home advantage (HA), quantified by the number of points won at home expressed as a percentage of all points, are believed to be crowd support, territoriality, familiarity, and travel fatigue.
Markus Tilp, Sigrid Thaller
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IntroductionPrevious studies have highlighted the challenges faced by Chinese Japanese-as-a-foreign-language (JFL) learners (whose L2 is English) in acquiring L3 Japanese loanwords.
Yaoyao Geng, Qichao Song, Xiaodong Fei
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The effect of familiarity on face adaptation [PDF]
Face aftereffects can provide information on how faces are stored by the human visual system (eg Leopold et al, 2001 Nature Neuroscience 4 89 – 94), but few studies have used robustly represented (highly familiar) faces. In this study we investigated the
Hole, Graham, Laurence, Sarah
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The role of demonstrator familiarity and language cues on infant imitation from television [PDF]
An imitation procedure was used to investigate the impact of demonstrator familiarity and language cues on infant learning from television. Eighteen-month-old infants watched two pre-recorded videos showing an adult demonstrating a sequence of actions ...
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Developing Iran's Image Model as Tourist Destination: A Mixed method [PDF]
The aim of current study was to examine the effect of perceived risk of potential tourist, middle-east image and familiarity on Iran’ image destination. For this purpose, a mixed method approach was considered.
Somayeh Mahmoodi +2 more
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Negative stress due to human handling has been reported for a number of domestic animals, including dogs. Many companion dogs display significant stress during routine care in the veterinary clinic, risking injury to staff and potentially compromising ...
Emma K. Grigg +13 more
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In this paper we would like to explore, within Vallduví’s (1992, 1993) information packaging theory, how writers’ assumptions about their addressees’ state of knowledge can account for the choice writers make between competing syntactic structures, which
Rudy Loock
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