Lexical density, lexical diversity, and lexical sophistication in simultaneously interpreted texts: a cognitive perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Simultaneous interpreting (SI) is a cognitively demanding task that imposes a heavy cognitive load on interpreters. Interpreting into one’s native (A language) or non-native language (B language), known as interpreting directionality, involves different ...
Zhibo Liu, Juhua Dou
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Crowdsourcing lexical diversity [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceLexical-semantic resources (LSRs), such as online lexicons and wordnets, are fundamental to natural language processing applications as well as to fields such as linguistic anthropology and language preservation.
Hadi Khalilia +5 more
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Lexical Diversity, Lexical Sophistication, and Predictability for Speech in Multiple Listening Conditions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 When talkers anticipate that a listener may have difficulty understanding their speech, they adopt a speaking style typically described as “clear speech.” This speaking style includes a variety of acoustic modifications and has perceptual benefits for ...
Melissa M. Baese-Berk +5 more
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Lexical diversity in kinship across languages and dialects. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Languages are known to describe the world in diverse ways. Across lexicons, diversity is pervasive, appearing through phenomena such as lexical gaps and untranslatability. However, in computational resources, such as multilingual lexical databases, diversity is hardly ever represented.
Khalilia H +4 more
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Lexical diversity and lexical skills in children who stutter. [PDF]
J Fluency Disord, 2020 Numerous "small N" studies of language ability in children who stutter have produced differing conclusions. We combined test and spontaneous language data from a large cohort of children who stutter (CWS) and typically fluent peers, gathered from independent laboratories across the US, to appraise a variety of lexical measures.Standardized receptive ...
Luckman C +6 more
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Lexical diversity in Parkinson's disease. [PDF]
J Clin Mov Disord, 2015 Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative syndrome of the basal ganglia (BG) believed to disrupt cortical-subcortical pathways critical to motor, cognitive and expressive language function. Recent studies have shown subtle deficits in expressive language performance among individuals with PD even in the earliest stage of the disease.
Ellis C, Holt YF, West T.
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Investigating Lexical Progression through Lexical Diversity Metrics in a Corpus of French L3 [PDF]
Discours, 2018 This article presents a corpus-based evaluation of 13 lexical diversity metrics as measures of longitudinal progression in written productions of learners of French as third language (L3).
Paula Lissón, Nicolas Ballier
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Lexical Diversity in Statistical and Neural Machine Translation [PDF]
Information, 2022 Neural machine translation systems have revolutionized translation processes in terms of quantity and speed in recent years, and they have even been claimed to achieve human parity.
Mojca Brglez, Špela Vintar
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Neuroanatomical structures supporting lexical diversity, sophistication, and phonological word features during discourse [PDF]
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 Deficits in lexical retrieval are commonly observed in individuals with post-stroke aphasia. Successful lexical retrieval is related to lexical diversity, lexical sophistication, and phonological word properties; however, the crucial brain regions ...
Janina Wilmskoetter +9 more
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Lexical access, lexical diversity and speech fluency in first language attrition
Strani Jezici, 2022 Prolonged exposure to a second language changes how the first language (L1) is produced and processed, a phenomenon labelled as language attrition (Yilmaz & Schmid, 2018).
Sergei Gnitiev, Szilvia Bátyi
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