An entropy-based study of Simplification in ChatGPT translations compared to neural machine translation and human translation across genres. [PDF]
Yao G, Fan L.
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Seeing the Speaker's Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence
Abstract This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated how facial cues influence second language (L2) shadowing among 42 Japanese learners of English. Participants completed four conditions that varied by task type (listening vs. shadowing) and visual input (face vs. mosaic).
Hyeonjeong Jeong +7 more
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Language biomarker screening using AI: a transdiagnostic approach to the brain. [PDF]
Themistocleous C, Stark BC.
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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Pauses as a Quantitative Measure of Linguistic Planning Challenges in Parkinson's Disease. [PDF]
D'Ascanio S +4 more
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What are particularistic pejoratives?
Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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Mechanisms at the core of the Chinese script invention. [PDF]
Ottaviano L, Ferrara S.
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Did I have a dream last night? White dreaming as metacognitive feelings
While most research on sleep mentation focuses on dream reports, sleep experiences can also include reports lacking content, such as white dreaming—the feeling of knowing one dreamt but being unable to recall its contents. I claim that white dreaming is a metacognitive feeling, akin to tip‐of‐the‐tongue and déjà experiences.
Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez
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Characterization of reading processes in Brazilian adolescents: development of criteria for identifying students at risk for dyslexia. [PDF]
de Assumpção Victorio RPS, Germano GD.
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Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
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