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Semantic Memory and Lexical Availability in Parkinson’s Disease: A Statistical Learning Study [PDF]

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2021
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes a progressive impairment in motor and cognitive functions. Although semantic fluency deficits have been described in PD, more specific semantic memory (SM) and lexical availability (LA)
Juan F. Cardona, Juan F. Cardona, Johan S. Grisales-Cardenas, Johan S. Grisales-Cardenas, Catalina Trujillo-Llano, Catalina Trujillo-Llano, Jesús A. Diazgranados, Hugo F. Urquina, Sebastián Cardona, Alejandra Torres, Alejandra Torres, Liliana A. Torres, Lina M. Gonzalez, Lina M. Gonzalez, Tania Jaramillo, Tania Jaramillo, Judith Cediel, Judith Cediel, Nelcy Oñate-Cadena, Geral Mateus-Ferro, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos   +20 more
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Conceptions of geography and history as school disciplines: an approach from lexical availability [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
This paper aims to examine students’ conceptions of Geography and History as school disciplines at different educational stages. The sample, composed by a total of 73 participants from Primary School (n = 26), Secondary School (n = 29) and Higher ...
Juan Luis de la Montaña Conchiña, Guadalupe de la Maya Retamar, Magdalena López-Pérez   +2 more
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The Lexical Availability of “Daily Activities” in Learners of Spanish (SFL)

Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2021
The objective of the present work, which focuses on the teaching and learning of Spanish vocabulary, is to present the lexical availability of Slovene students of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) in the semantic category “daily activities”.
Marjana Šifrar Kalan
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Lexical Availability and Foreign Language Teaching: Main Contributions of a Growing Field

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
Teaching vocabulary presents a significant challenge in foreign language instruction. This article discusses the advantages that the results obtained in studies on lexical availability offer for foreign language teaching.
Marta Sánchez-Saus Laserna
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Disponibilidad léxica y anglicismos informáticos en los centros de interés: Internet, software y hardware. [PDF]

Odisea, 2017
Resumen: Este trabajo recoge los resultados de un estudio sobre la disponibilidad léxica de los estudiantes de traducción de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (España) en torno a tres centros de interés del ámbito de la informática: Internet ...
Carmen Isabel Luján García, Alicia Bolaños Medina   +1 more
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Context Availability and Sentence Availability Ratings for 3,000 English Words and their Association with Lexical Processing

Journal of Cognition, 2022
Words that can be easily placed in contexts are more easily processed, yet norms for context availability are limited. Here, participants rated 3,000 words for context availability and sentence availability, a new metric predicted to capture information ...
Ellen Taylor, Kate Nation, Yaling Hsiao
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Estimating Lexical Availability of European Portuguese Proverbs [PDF]

International Conference on Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology, 2017
This paper relates data on lexical availability with data on textual frequency of proverbs in European Portuguese. Each data source should provide different perspectives on the use of proverbs in the language. This should allow an empirically well-motivated selection of proverbs aiming at the development of NLP resources, specifically for applications ...
Sónia Reis, J. Baptista
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Lexical Availability in CLIL

International Journal of English Studies
Within the context of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), vocabulary acquisition is of central importance. However, while CLIL is increasingly being implemented throughout Spain, there remains a clear preference, both in practice and ...
Leah Geoghegan
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LEXICAL AVAILABILITY AND L2 VOCABULARY ACQUISITION

Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2015
Vocabulary research has followed a different path in English and in Spanish applied linguistics. Spanish applied linguistics has paid more attention to available lexicons of speakers than to word frequency. The measure of lexical availability combines the frequency at which a word is produced as a member of a semantic category (e.g.
Marjana Šifrar Kalan
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Language selective or non-selective in bilingual lexical access? It depends on lexical tones!

PLoS ONE, 2020
Much of the literature surrounding bilingual spoken word recognition is based on bilinguals of non-tonal languages. In the Mandarin spoken word recognition literature, lexical tones are often considered as equally important as segments in lexical ...
Xin Wang, Bronson Hui, Siyu Chen
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