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Exploring the "anchor word" effect in infants: Segmentation and categorisation of speech with and without high frequency words. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 High frequency words play a key role in language acquisition, with recent work suggesting they may serve both speech segmentation and lexical categorisation. However, it is not yet known whether infants can detect novel high frequency words in continuous
Rebecca L A Frost +4 more
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Towards a reconceptualisation of “word” for high frequency word generation in word knowledge studies
Perspectives in Education, 2014 The present paper derives from a PhD study investigating the nexus between Grade 4 textbook vocabulary demands and Grade 3 isiXhosa-speaking learners’ knowledge of that vocabulary to enable them to read to learn in Grade 4.
Jabulani Sibanda, Jean Baxen
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High frequency words in English textbooks for Indonesian senior high schools
Studies in English Language and Education, 2021 This content analysis study focused on three main purposes, including to analyse the High Frequency Words (HFWs) of Dolch’s list in reading texts from three English textbooks of Indonesian senior high schools, to analyse the language features of HFWs in ...
Rizki Meliani Rustan, Erna Andriyanti
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Developing Persian Quick Speech in Noise With Words Containing High Frequency Phonemes: Determining its Validity and Equivalency [PDF]
Ṭibb-i Tavānbakhshī, 2023 Background and Aims The quick speech in noise (Q-SIN) test shows how difficult it is to perceive speech in noise by determining signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss.
Farzaneh Fatahi +6 more
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High frequency word entrainment in spoken dialogue [PDF]
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies Short Papers - HLT '08, 2008 Cognitive theories of dialogue hold that entrainment, the automatic alignment between dialogue partners at many levels of linguistic representation, is key to facilitating both production and comprehension in dialogue. In this paper we examine novel types of entrainment in two corpora —Switchboard and the Columbia Games corpus.
Ani Nenkova +2 more
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Technical Terms Used in General English Textbooks Across Disciplines
Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2022 The study aimed to analyze lexical items underpinned in the textbooks used in the current teaching of ESP and GE. Using content analysis, a systematic evaluation of texts to examine nuances to bridge the gap between quantitative and qualitative data ...
Sammy Q. Dolba
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Frequency Effects on Spelling Error Recognition: An ERP Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Spelling errors are ubiquitous in all writing systems. Most studies exploring spelling errors focused on the phonological plausibility of errors. However, unlike typical pseudohomophones, spelling errors occur in naturally produced written language.
Ekaterina V. Larionova +2 more
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Memorability judgments for high- and low-frequency words [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 1998 Five experiments were conducted in order to examine subjects' judgments of the memorability of high- (HF) and low-frequency (LF) words in the context of a recognition memory task. In Experiment 1, the subjects were provided study/test experience with a list of HF and LF words prior to making memorability judgments for a new list of HF and LF items. The
R, Guttentag, D, Carroll
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The Contribution of General High-Frequency, Core-Academic, and Academic-Technical Words to ESP Reading Comprehension [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2017 Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se.
Ali Derakhshan, Ali Malmir
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Unlike in English, the role of phonology in word recognition in Chinese is unclear. In this event-related potential experiment, we investigated the role of phonology in reading both high- and low-frequency two-character compound Chinese words ...
Yuling Wang +4 more
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