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First Year University Students’ Use of Formulaic Sequences in Oral and Written Descriptions

Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
The present article investigates the use of first year university students’ formulaic sequences in written and oral texts in an English as a foreign language context.
Eric Gómez Burgos
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Cumulative Testing for Learning Spoken Vocabulary

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Cumulative testing is known to improve vocabulary learning by integrating both new and previously introduced words in weekly quizzes. While evidence for its benefits is promising, prior research has primarily focused on the written mode of vocabulary, with target words studied, practiced, and tested in the visual mode only.
Ryo Maie, Takumi Uchihara
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Research on Improving English Writing Ability by Lexical Chunks Approach

Frontiers in Educational Research, 2021
As a whole linguistic unit, lexical chunks have the characteristics of prefabrication and extraction. Based on the relevant theories, this paper analyzes the existing problems in English writing teaching, expounds the advantages of lexical chunks in improving English writing ability, and puts forward some countermeasures to improve English writing ...
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Improving chunking by means of lexical-contextual information in statistical language models [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Learning language in logic and the 4th conference on Computational natural language learning -, 2000
In this work, we present a stochastic approach to shallow parsing. Most of the current approaches to shallow parsing have a common characteristic: they take the sequence of lexical tags proposed by a POS tagger as input for the chunking process. Our system produces tagging and chunking in a single process using an Integrated Language Model (ILM ...
Ferran Pla, Antonio Molina, Natividad Prieto   +2 more
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
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TYPES OF TERMINOLOGICAL COLLOCATIONS IN MEDICAL ENGLISH DISCOURSE

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
Background. The problem of word compatibility has been actively studied by Western and Russian researchers since the middle of the XX century. Any language is known to be a living and constantly developing system, within which certain speech patterns are
Oksana O. Lyamova
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Syntactic Maxi-Accidents in Spontaneous Speech of Middle-Class Speakers of English

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2019
Spontaneous spoken language is known to be rich in fragmented and nonintegrated chunks of speech. The latter are the result of syntactic “accidents”, which are indispensible elements of spontaneous talk.
Karen Velyan
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Using Lexical Chunks for Developing MUST English Majors’ Oral Communication [PDF]

Journal of Research in Curriculum Instruction and Educational Technology, 2018
T he current study investigated the effect of the training on using the lexical chunks on developing oral communication among 3rd year English majors at Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST). The problem of the study was that 3rd year English majors could not communicate effectively in oral interaction because of the lack of ...
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