Exploring the Productive Vocabulary of EFL Learners Through Lexical Availability [PDF]
This study has two objectives. The first is to ascertain whether there exists a relationship betweenthe level of productive vocabulary and lexical availability in English as a foreign language. The secondis to explore the depth of productive lexical knowledge through qualitative analysis of the level ofwords generated by upper secondary EFL learners ...
Rosa Mª Jiménez-Catalán [0000-0001-7747-2047]
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Lexical Availability in CLIL [PDF]
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 research, for using English over other languages such as French.
Geoghegan, Leah +1 more
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Estimating Lexical Availability of European Portuguese Proverbs [PDF]
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 ...
Reis, Sónia, Baptista, Jorge
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Talker-specificity and lexical competition effects during word learning [PDF]
The experiments reported in this thesis examine the time-course of talker-specificity and lexical competition effects during word learning.
Brown, Helen
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Integrative priming occurs rapidly and uncontrollably during lexical processing [PDF]
Lexical priming, whereby a prime word facilitates recognition of a related target word (e.g., nurse ? doctor), is typically attributed to association strength, semantic similarity, or compound familiarity.
Jones, Lara L. +4 more
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Theoretical Exploration of the Lexical Availability Task as a Tool for the Selection of Vocabulary to be Taught in Class [PDF]
Since its conception in the 1950s, the Lexical Availability Task (LAT) has steadily gained prominence as an assessment tool in language teaching and learning, perhaps due to the fact that it not only provides a useful indication of the lexical resources ...
Leah Geoghegan [0000-0003-3084-0927] +1 more
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Lexical and sub-lexical knowledge influences the encoding, storage, and articulation of nonwords [PDF]
Nonword repetition (NWR) has been used extensively in the study of child language. Although lexical and sub-lexical knowledge is known to influence NWR performance, there has been little examination of the NWR processes (e.g., encoding, storage ...
Witherstone, HL, Jones, G
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Disponibilidad léxica en diferentes niveles de español/lengua extranjera
The objective of this study is to present the lexical availability in Slovene students of Spanish FL through the application of lexico-statistical methodology.
Marjana Šifrar Kalan
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Fenòmens de contacte lingüístic en el lèxic disponible català de Lleida
This article aims to analyse the influence of Spanish on the lexicon available in Catalan. For this pur-pose, we examine to what extent the Catalan lexicon contains elements of Spanish and what value these units havewithin the data ...
Maribel Serrano Zapata
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SENTIWORDNET: A Publicly Available Lexical Resource for Opinion Mining
Opinion mining (OM) is a recent subdiscipline at the crossroads of information retrieval and computational linguistics which is concerned not with the topic a document is about, but with the opinion it expresses. OM has a rich set of applications, ranging from tracking users' opinions about products or about political candidates as expressed in online ...
Esuli A, Sebastiani F
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