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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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Improving Lexical Accuracy: Working with Collocations [PDF]
, 2016 Collocations are common and arbitrary combinations of two or more words. Their meaning, as opposed to that of many other phraseological units (such as idioms) is transparent.
Llorente, Lucia I
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English Verbs of Directional Vision:Compatibility with Designations of a Qualitative Attribute
Научный диалогThis article addresses the challenges of constructing a semantic model of verbs related to the concept of ‘directed vision process and its qualitative attribute’ based on English collocations. The authors examine the structure of meaning of these lexical
N. A. Antonova, T. S. Ignatyeva
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores how statistical properties of verb–preposition and verb–particle constructions (VPCs) and their interplay in the target language shape second language (L2) production across L2 proficiency levels. We compared phrasal frequency and three contingency measures—mutual information (MI), forward delta P (ΔP), and backward ΔP—of ...
Yanlu Zhong
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Collocations and Other Lexical Combinations in Spanish [Reseña de libro] [PDF]
, 2017 Reseña del libro "Collocations and Other Lexical Combinations in Spanish" de Sergi Torner y Elisenda Bernal (eds.
Martínez Aguirre, Rebeca
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Two Nationalisms, One City: Official and Diasporic Framings of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyses the contested collective memories of the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti‐ELAB) movement, investigating how the Hong Kong government and diaspora construct divergent narratives to shape national identity and nationalism.
Isaac Iu
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Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
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Lexical Functions and the Translation of Collocations [PDF]
, 2007 This paper discusses the lexicographical concept of lexical functions (Mel'cuk and Zolkovsky, 1984) and their potential exploitation in the development of a machine translation lexicon designed to handle collocations.
Dirk Heylen, Kerry Maxwell
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Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
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Words and Scents: How Language Shapes and Skews Olfactory Processing
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Research on language and olfaction presents a paradox. Language appears to support the formation of odor categories, yet it can also hinder odor recognition through verbal interference, highlighting that different olfactory processes get affected in distinct ways.
Norbert Vanek
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