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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2018 Over the past 40 years, extensive research has examined the effectiveness of mnemonics for vocabulary learning. Much of this research has investigated the keyword method (Atkinson & Raugh, 1975), which involves linking an image related to a to-be ...
Charles M. Mueller
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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 +3 more
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What can polysemy tell us about theories of explanation? [PDF]
, 2016 Philosophical accounts of scientific explanation are broadly divided into ontic and epistemic views. This paper explores the idea that the lexical ambiguity of the verb to explain and its nominalisation supports an ontic conception of explanation.
A Zwicky +14 more
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the evolution of climate change discourse in the United States Congress from 1987 to 2017, employing natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze floor speeches. Using a la carte (ALC) word embeddings, we investigate how Democratic and Republican members of Congress frame climate change, focusing on denialist ...
Joseph Charles Van Matre +2 more
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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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 +5 more
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British Journal of Educational Psychology, Volume 96, Issue 2, Page 875-895, June 2026.Abstract Background Many words have multiple meanings, which present challenges to learning, yet research has yet to identify effective interventions for homonyms. Lexical inference may be a promising strategy. Aim To evaluate a brief, novel lexical inference intervention for homonyms. Samples Children aged 7–8 years (Study 1: N = 180, Study 2: N = 76).
Sophie A. Booton +4 more
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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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Evolving rules for document classification [PDF]
, 2005 We describe a novel method for using Genetic Programming to create compact classification rules based on combinations of N-Grams (character strings). Genetic programs acquire fitness by producing rules that are effective classifiers in terms of precision
A. Bergström +11 more
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The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 444-468, June 2026.Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt +2 more
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