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Pancreatic Cancer—Advances in the Last 50 Years

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World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
S. George Barreto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive aspects of lexical availability

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2006
Lexical availability measures the ease with which a word can be generated as a member of a given category. It has been developed by linguistic studies aimed, among other things, at devising a rational basis for selecting words for inclusion in dictionaries.
Cristina Izura, Andrew W Ellis
exaly   +2 more sources

Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language

Educational Linguistics, 2014
Preface .- 1. Lexical Availability Studies, Humberto Lopez Morales .- Part I . 2. Lexical Availability of Basic and Advanced Semantic Categories in English L1 and English L2, Roberto A. Ferreira and Max Echeverria .- 3. The Effect of Age on EFL Learners' Lexical Availability: Word Responses to the Cue Words 'Town' and 'Countryside', Rosa M* Jimenez ...
exaly   +2 more sources

EFL learners’ lexical availability: Exploring frequency, exposure, and vocabulary level

System, 2020
Abstract 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   +1 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Context availability and lexical decisions for abstract and concrete words

Journal of Memory and Language, 1988
Abstract 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
exaly   +2 more sources

EFL learners’ lexical availability: Effect of L1 background and prompt

Language Teaching Research
Lexical availability studies provide valuable insights into learners’ breadth and depth of controlled productive vocabulary, and structure of their lexicon. Yet, little is known about the performance of different-L1 learners on different prompts. Likewise, this study compared the available lexicon of three different-L1 groups of learners of English as
Is'Haaq Akbarian, Kaveh Jalilzadeh
exaly   +3 more sources

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