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EFL learners’ lexical availability: Exploring frequency, exposure, and vocabulary level
System, 2020Abstract Lexical availability studies have a great potential to explore and contribute to a better understanding of productive vocabulary knowledge in a second or foreign language. The present study compared the lexical availability output of two groups of EFL learners in order to ascertain whether the different prompts used in the lexical ...
Is'Haaq Akbarian
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Context availability and lexical decisions for abstract and concrete words
Journal of Memory and Language, 1988Abstract Three experiments were performed to examine contrsting predictions of a dualrepresentation and context availability hypothesis for concreteness effects in lexical decision. In Experiment 1, equivalent lexical decision times were obtained for concrete and abstract words controlled for rated context availability, whereas longer lexical ...
Paula J Schwanenflugel
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An Approach to Emotions Through Lexical Availability
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022Pedro Salcedo Lagos +2 more
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Lexical availability and grammatical encoding scope during spoken sentence production
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2013Three sentence production experiments investigate the relationship between lexical and structural processing scope. Speakers generated sentences with varying phrase structures in response to visual displays (e.g., The dog and the hat move above the fork and the tree/The dog moves above the hat and the fork and the tree).
Linda Wheeldon
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Tools and Resources for Lexical Availability Research
Educational LinguisticsCarmela Tome Cornejo
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Effect of Ambiguity and Lexical Availability on Syntactic and Lexical Production
Cognitive Psychology, 2000Speakers only sometimes include the that in sentence complement structures like The coach knew (that) you missed practice. Six experiments tested the predictions concerning optional word mention of two general approaches to language production. One approach claims that language production processes choose syntactic structures that ease the task of ...
V S, Ferreira, G S, Dell
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Concreteness and Context Availability in Lexical Decision Tasks
The American Journal of Psychology, 2006Abstract Three experiments were carried out to elucidate the origins of the concreteness (C) effect in a lexical decision task. The first experiment was a replication of the work of Schwanenflugel et al. (1988) and Van Hell and De Groot (1998), who presented the context availability (CA) hypothesis.
Shelly, Levy-Drori, Avishai, Henik
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Girls’ and Boys’ Lexical Availability in EFL
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009AbstractIn the present study we report research conducted with female and male students who were learning English as EFL in the 6th grade of Spanish primary education (end of this educational stage). Our main objective was to ascertain whether there were differences or similarities regarding the number and the kind of words produced by male students ...
Rosa M. Jiménez Catalán +1 more
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Lexical availability and writing ability of EFL learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020AbstractStudies on lexical availability (LA) reveal a different dimension of vocabulary knowledge and development. Likewise, this study explores (a) the relationship between LA and writing ability of male and female learners and (b) differences and similarities between the tokens and types of the words they generated.
Akbarian, Is'haaq, Farrokhi, Javad
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Predictors of lexical availability in English as a second language
Onomázein Revista de lingüística filología y traducción, 2019Lexical availability measures the degree of availability of a word given a semantic context or category. It has been widely used in the Spanish-speaking world in order to derive words for use in dictionaries and/or teaching materials, but has received very little attention in English.
Ferreira, Roberto A. +2 more
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