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, 2001 This volume presents a collection of papers touching on various issues concerning the syntax and semantics of predicative constructions. A hot topic in the study of predicative copula constructions, with direct implications for the treatment of he (how ...
Strigin, Anatolij +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This exploratory study investigated lexicogrammatical features associated with grade‐based differences in a corpus of 304 business papers taken from an upper‐level undergraduate course at a large North American university. Using five natural language processing tools, 719 candidate linguistic variables were analyzed for their relationship with
Randy Appel +2 more
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Functional categories in the L2 acquisition of English Morpho-syntax: a longitudinal study of two Farsi-speaking children [PDF]
, 2007 This is a longitudinal case study of two Farsi-speaking children learning English: 'Bernard' and 'Melissa', who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection.
Mobaraki, Mohsen
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Developing Pre‐Service Teachers’ Digital Self‐Efficacy Through Self‐Directed Language Learning
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary online language learning typically involves the use of multiple digital platforms. Drawing on digital self‐efficacy and self‐directed learning theories, this study investigates the self‐directed language learning experience of 19 pre‐service teachers as they navigate the affordances of two platforms, Duolingo and ChatGPT.
Yingqiu Chen, Louisa Buckingham
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How L2 Learners Negotiate Meaning in GenAI‐Supported Creative Writing
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores how second language (L2) learners negotiate meaning and co‐construct knowledge with generative AI (GenAI) in a 12‐week multimodal creative writing project. Chinese middle school students (N = 75) created English picture books using a conversational GenAI agent supporting textual and text‐to‐image generation.
Zhihui Zhang +3 more
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Towards a Reduction of Grammar Teaching a Lexical Analysis
TEFLIN Journal, 1999 Learning a language is essensially learning vocabulary, and it is the lexical competence that enables the learners to use the language with ease. It will be argued that such an ability includes, among the important ones, the knowledge of semantic ...
Priyono Priyono
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Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie OccidentaleThis study investigates the defining properties of Agents and the interplay of syntax and semantics in semantic inferences, based on Dowty’s Proto-Role Hypothesis.
Suozzi, Alice +2 more
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Catch Me If You Can: The Dynamic Nature of Bias in Machine Learning Applications
Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bias in machine learning (ML) applications represents systematic differences between expected and actual values of the predicted outputs, such that certain individuals or groups are systematically and disproportionately (dis)advantaged. This paper investigates the dynamic nature of bias in ML applications.
Monideepa Tarafdar, Irina Rets, Yang Hu
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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Using very large corpora to detect raising and control verbs [PDF]
, 2007 The distinction between raising and subject-control verbs, although crucial for the construction of semantics, is not easy to make given access to only the local syntactic configuration of the sentence.
Chrupała, Grzegorz, van Genabith, Josef
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