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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi +3 more
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Významové souvislosti univerbizátů a s nimi stejně znějících výrazů v textech současné češtiny
Univerbization is a process of word-formation by which the words of a compound lexeme or of a syntactic construction fuse into a single word/one-word lexeme: that one-word lexeme is called univerbizate (in Czech univerbizát - a result of the process of ...
Ivana Kolářová
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The Part-of-Speech Status of Pravda (‘Truth’) Lexeme in the Russian Language of the 21st Century
The modern stage of the Russian language development is characterized by the existence of a huge number of lexical units of "transitional" character. These phenomena demonstrate washing out of language subsystems' boarders.
Yana V. Valeshnaya
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THE NAMES OF TRAVELING ROUTESOF THE HISTORICAL UMAN AREA (18th–19th CENTURIES) [PDF]
The purpose of the article is to analyze structural and semantic features of ancient dromonyms and remigationyms of the historical Uman area during their existence, at the beginning of the first fixations in the written texts of 18th–19th centuries to ...
Oksana B. Vasylyk
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Lexeme Equivalence Or Rivalry Of Lexemes?
This paper deals with the purported interchangeability between nouns and adjectives derived from nouns in French. The question of equivalence or rivalry between a morphologically complex adjective and a syntactic construction containing a morphologically-related noun links a field of studies on rivalry between inflected word forms, derivational ...
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The Grammar of Perception: A Case Study of Guambiano (Namtrik) and Duna
Abstract Although the senses provide a common basis for our experience of the world, cross‐linguistic research has revealed substantial diversity across languages in how perceptual experiences are encoded in words. Such variability is also present at the level of grammatical structure, though the project of charting the parameters and limits of cross ...
Elisabeth Norcliffe, Lila San Roque
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Lexical-semantic group “War and Weapon” in the Crimean Tatar language [PDF]
The military lexicon was already formed in the common Turkic period and covers almost all spheres of military affairs. This lexicon consists of common Turkic, common Altaic and borrowed words.
Zera Sattarova
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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes
ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch +2 more
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