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Lexical coverage in L1 and L2 viewing comprehension

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Acquisition
AbstractThis study aimed to investigate the relationship between lexical coverage and TV viewing comprehension. Previous studies have indicated that 95% to 98% of lexical coverage may be needed for reading comprehension (Hu & Nation, 2000). To understand informal listening passages, lower coverage figures (95%-90%) may suffice.
Marion Durbahn   +3 more
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The Influence of Common Language on the Trade of Wheat and Bakery Products

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether sharing a common official language increases the probability that two countries engage in bilateral trade of wheat and bakery products. Using a binary choice framework applied to 54,780 country‐pair observations for 2023, probit and logit models of the extensive margin of trade are estimated, with a focus on whether
Felipe Durães do Nascimento Monteiro Barbosa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Types of Lexical Sets in Structural-Semantic, Cognitive-Discursive and Lexicographic Coverage: Dynamics of Interpretations

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2020
The dynamics of understanding lexical sets in theoretical and practical aspects over the past 50 years is provided, highlighting the main stages of their identification, study and interpretation features in the light of various scientific approaches ...
L. G. Babenko
doaj   +1 more source

Démonette-2, a derivational database for French with broad lexical coverage and fine-grained morphological descriptions

open access: yesLexique, 2023
Morphological databases play an important role in linguistic research today. While several exist for the study of inflectional morphology in French, there is still a lack of resources for derivational morphology.
Fiammetta Namer   +29 more
doaj   +1 more source

LLM‐Based Scientific Assistants for Knowledge Extraction: Which Design Choices Matter?

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
A comprehensive framework for optimizing Large Language Models in domain‐specific applications is introduced. The LLM Playground integrates Prompt Engineering, knowledge augmentation, and advanced reasoning strategies to enable systematic comparison of architectures and base models.
David Exler   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the word family through word lists

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2018
The choice of lexical unit has important consequences for L2 vocabulary research, testing and instruction. In recent years, the most widely used lexical unit has been the word family.
Dale Brown
doaj   +1 more source

Vocabulary Demands of Academic Spoken English Revisited: A Case of University Lectures and TED Presentations

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2023
The article shines light upon the differences in the vocabulary demands of academic spoken discourse between three broad scientific disciplines: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Nguyen Huynh Trang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Python-based Interface for Wide Coverage Lexicalized Tree-adjoining Grammars [PDF]

open access: yesThe Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 2015
Abstract This paper describes the design and implementation of a Python-based interface for wide coverage Lexicalized Tree-adjoining Grammars. The grammars are part of the XTAG Grammar project at the University of Pennsylvania, which were hand-written and semi-automatically curated to parse real-world corpora.
Ziqi Wang, Haotian Zhang, Anoop Sarkar
openaire   +1 more source

Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
wiley   +1 more source

Phono-lexical similarity between Bahasa Indonesia and Urdu: A corpus-based contrastive analysis study [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture
This study investigates phono-lexical similarity between Urdu and Bahasa Indonesia through a corpus-based contrastive analysis. The aim of the research is to categorise phonologically similar lexical pairs using Contrastive Analysis theory and to ...
Hafiza Sana Mansoor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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