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An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation [PDF]
, 2010 This article, part of a 10 language comparative project on question–response sequences, discusses these sequences in American English conversation.
Stivers, T.
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez +3 more
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As interfaces das disciplinas do Léxico
Dialogia, 2011 Neste artigo, discute-se o léxico como um sistema de unidades atuantes no universo cultural de uma comunidade linguística. São apresentadas possíveis considerações a respeito, bem como alguns mecanismos de ampliação.
Angela Kovachich de Oliveira Reis
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Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.Abstract People with Parkinson disease (PD) after surgery for deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN‐DBS) often decline in animal fluency due to impairments in executive functions and/or language. Item‐based measures of animal fluency may shed light on the specific nature of this decline, and into the strategies used when ...
Adrià Rofes +6 more
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Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.Abstract We identified in two awake surgery cases a postoperative double dissociation between phonological and graphemic output buffer deficits. Using lesion‐symptom mapping from ischaemic mini‐strokes and preoperative tractography, we demonstrated that the phonological (resp. graphemic) disorder fitted with ventral (resp.
Valéry Mandonnet +5 more
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Hedgehog Pillows and Squirrel Plates: Priming Semantic Structure in Children's Comprehension
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We report three expression–picture‐matching experiments targeting preschoolers’ semantic processing. We assessed whether 3‐ and 4‐year‐olds’ interpretations of ambiguous novel noun–noun combinations (e.g., hedgehog pillow) were affected by immediate language experience and what role lexical items played in this process.
Judit Fazekas +2 more
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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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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract As people age, there is a natural decline in cognitive functioning and brain structure. However, the relationship between brain function and cognition in older adults is neither straightforward nor uniform. Instead, it is complex, influenced by multiple factors, and can vary considerably from one person to another.
Monica Baciu, Elise Roger
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Lexico-Acoustic Neural-Based Models for Dialog Act Classification [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2018 Recent works have proposed neural models for dialog act classification in spoken dialogs. However, they have not explored the role and the usefulness of acoustic information. We propose a neural model that processes both lexical and acoustic features for
Daniel Ortega, Ngoc Thang Vu
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Some observations on the poetical language of love songs in in the dialect of the Jbala (Northen Morocco) [PDF]
, 2006 Este articulo trata sobre canciones populares de tematica amorosa en dialecto arabe yebali. Para ello, nos serviremos de material adicional extraido de algunos dialectos arabes.
Gintsburg, Sarali
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