Clarity Without Credibility? Human Versus AI Abstracts in Otolaryngology
ABSTRACT Objective This study evaluated whether otolaryngologists can distinguish between human‐ and machine‐written abstracts. The primary question was whether large language models (LLMs) produce abstracts comparable in clarity and usefulness to human‐authored work, and whether reviewers can identify authorship with accuracy.
Sholem Hack +12 more
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L2 Learner-Made Formulaic Expressions and Constructions
The emergence of lexico-grammatical productivity has been a central issue in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Ellis (2002) proposed that formulaic chunks of language are one resource for the learner to develop such productivity.
Timothy Hall
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Uporaba strategij odzivanja na pohvale iranskih ucencev anglescine: raziskovanje sogovornikove relativne moci polozaja in spola [PDF]
This article reports on a study that set out to investigate how Iranian EFL learners respond to compliments in English. The data were collected using a discourse completion task (DCT) consisting of a variety of situations that required the participants ...
Tamimi Sa\u27d, Seyyed Hatam
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Formulacity in ESP Teaching: A Case of Doing a Balancing Act Between Form and Meaning
Grammar teaching has never belonged to mainstream ESP teaching/ learning practices. However, this apparent lack of concern with grammar in ESP materials runs counter to both subjective and objective needs of ESP learners.
Gutowska Urszula
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Behavior-Based Early Language Development on a Humanoid Robot [PDF]
We are exploring the idea that early language acquisition could be better modelled on an artifcial creature by considering the pragmatic aspect of natural language and of its development in human infants.
Varshavskaya, Paulina
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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THE EFFECT OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION IN FORMULAIC SEQUENCES ON IELTS STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PERFORMANCE
In the light of previous research into the correlation between the acquisition of formulaic sequences and language learners’ fluency gains, this study aims to investigate the extent to which an intensive course of direct instruction in preselected ...
Gennadiy Goncharov
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Formulaic language sequences in discourse and narrative: constructionist approach [PDF]
The article provides a review of the language theories in the cognitive perspective maintaining that formulaic sequences are linguistic elements which are perceived as fixed and prefabricated wholes that can be retrieved from memory at the time of ...
Чугу, С. Д.
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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In our study we examine teaching mother tongue through faire and folk tales from the perspectives of recognizing clichés in fairy tales and myths, idiomatic phrases which work as morals, proverbs and very specific phrases of traditional tales’.
Smaragda PAPADOPOULOU
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