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The Effect of Semantic Similarity on Learning Ambiguous Words in a Second Language: An Event-Related Potential Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Ambiguous words have multiple meanings. How these multiple meanings interact with each other during ambiguous word learning remains unclear. The current study adopted an event-related potentials (ERPs) technique to explore whether there is an interaction
Yuanyue Zhang, Yao Lu, Lijuan Liang, Baoguo Chen   +3 more
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Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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Are Contrived Lecture Passages From International Academic English Assessments Lexically Comparable to Actual University Lectures?

TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The vocabulary load of university lectures and the coverage of academic vocabulary in spoken discourse have been used as benchmarks in researching whether various listening sources lexically correspond to actual university lectures. However, it remains unexplored whether contrived lecture passages from international academic English ...
Masaya Kaneko
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Homonymy in English Language and Means of Its Representation (on Example of Functional Words what and very)

Научный диалог, 2018
The phenomenon of homonymy of functional words in modern English is considered. The relevance of the work is that the issues of homonymy, in particular one of functional words, are still controversial and not fully studied.
T. S. Ignatyeva, N. A. Antonova
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Metaphor Is Between Metonymy and Homonymy: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
The goal of the present study was to investigate the interaction between different senses of polysemous nouns (metonymies and metaphors) and different meanings of homonyms using the method of event-related potentials (ERPs) and a priming paradigm ...
Anna Yurchenko, Anna Yurchenko, Anastasiya Lopukhina, Anastasiya Lopukhina, Olga Dragoy, Olga Dragoy   +5 more
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Adult granulosa cell tumours of the testis analogous to ovarian counterparts are exceptionally rare: analysis of a multicentric series and review of the literature

Histopathology, Volume 88, Issue 4, Page 831-842, March 2026.
Assessment of twenty testicular AGCTs with two different next‐generation sequencing (NGS) panels reveals differences with ovarian AGCTs, including absence of hotspot FOXL2 variants. Aims Testicular adult granulosa cell tumours (AGCTs) are rare and show several clinical–pathological differences with their ovarian counterparts.
Costantino Ricci, Dario de Biase, Thais Maloberti, Agnese Orsatti, Thomas M Ulbright, Muhammad T Idrees, Esther Oliva, Kristine Cornejo, João Lobo, Kvetoslava Michalova, Maria Rosaria Raspollini, Sean R Williamson, Geert JLH van Leenders, Chia‐Sui Kao, Fiona Maclean, Ankur R Sangoi, Adeboye O Osunkoya, Michelangelo Fiorentino, Antonio De Leo, Giovanni Tallini, Andres Martin Acosta   +20 more
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Detection and Genetic Diversity of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts in Human Lice Based on 16S‐rRNA Gene

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026.
Candidatus Riesia pediculicola and Wolbachia were found in 79.6% and 95.2% of head lice, and 81.8% and 100% of body lice. Candidatus Riesia pthiripubis and Wolbachia appeared in 41.7% and 75% of pubic lice. Maximum‐likelihood 16S‐rRNA phylogeny revealed substantial heterogeneity within symbiont populations. ABSTRACT Human lice are obligate bloodsucking
Anthony Marteau, Sophie Brun, Arezki Izri, Mohammad Akhoundi   +3 more
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The cognitive role of concept variability

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 66-87, February 2026.
I present and defend concept variability, the view that concepts can admit of indefinitely many variations and changes in their representational contents without thereby losing their identity. I argue that the variability of concepts is central to their role in enabling cognition, and thus that a concept's content variability is, despite philosophical ...
Alnica Visser
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Interlingual Homonyms of Polysemic Origin in Related Languages

Communications, 2014
The article deals with lexical units of homonymic character functioning on the inter-linguistic level in Slavic languages. The emphasis is put on interlingual homonyms with the origin in the semantic relation of polysemy.
Marta Lackova, Eva Lelakova
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The polysemy of “I”

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 2-20, February 2026.
Orthodoxy assumes that the first‐person thoughts of an individual are anchored to a stable object. I challenge this assumption by arguing that “I” is polysemous. The perspectival anchor of a first‐person thought could be the bearer of the thought, the agent, the bearer of perception, or a body, to name just a few options.
Susanna Schellenberg
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