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Usage Effects on the Cognitive Routinization of Chinese Resultative Verbs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The present study adopts a corpus-oriented usage-based approach to the grammar of Chinese resultative verbs. Zooming in on a specific class of V-kai constructions, this paper aims to elucidate the effect of frequency in actual usage events on shaping the
Wang Ben Pin-Yun
core   +2 more sources

Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sublexical vs. supralexical representation of morphological encoding: Towards a reconciliation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Lexical morphemes such as roots, stems, inflectional and derivational affixes constitute the basic ingredients of words in languages. After 30 years of investigations, the majority of the psycholinguists nowadays agree in assigning a central role to ...
Giraudo, hélène, Montermini, Fabio
core   +1 more source

Bilingual education and L3 learning: metalinguistic advantage or not? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Metalinguistic skills are highlighted in the literature as providing bilinguals with an advantage in additional language (L3) learning. The extent to which this may apply to bilingual education and content-and-language-integrated-learning settings ...

core   +2 more sources

T. rex cognition was T. rex‐like—A critical outlook on diverging views of the neurocognitive evolution in dinosaurs

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract A recent debate has emerged between Caspar et al. (2024) and Herculano‐Houzel (2023) on inferring extinct dinosaur cognition by estimating brain neuron counts. While thought‐provoking, the discussion largely overlooks the function of cognition, as well as partly neglects the difficulties involved in estimating neuron numbers, which according ...
Thomas Rejsenhus Jensen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are We Talking about the Same Thing? Modeling Semantic Similarity between Common and Specialized Lexica in WordNet

open access: yesLanguages
Specialized languages can activate different sets of semantic features when compared to general language or express concepts through different words according to the domain.
Chiara Barbero, Raquel Amaro
doaj   +1 more source

Toward a cognitive organization for electronic dictionaries, the case for semantic proxemy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We compare a psycholinguistic approach of mental lexicon organization with a computational approach of implicit lexical organization as found in dictionaries. In this work, we associate dictionaries with 'small world' graphs.
Desalle, Yann   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Community building through play: Development and design of a board game for review in an undergraduate anatomy course

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Engaging students and fostering interactions can be a challenge in large enrollment, foundational‐level, undergraduate anatomy classes. Despite the active learning environment of the anatomy laboratory, students often struggle to find study partners or even speak to fellow learners in a large classroom.
Kristin Stover   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Input Frequency and L2 Proficiency on the Representation of Collocations for Chinese EFL Learners

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Collocations typically refer to habitual word combinations, which not only occur in texts but also constitute an essential component of the mental lexicon. This study focuses on the mental lexicon of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL)
Mengchu Yu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Semi-Supervised Approach to Monitoring Clinical Depressive Symptoms in Social Media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
With the rise of social media, millions of people are routinely expressing their moods, feelings, and daily struggles with mental health issues on social media platforms like Twitter.
Al-Olimat, Hussein S.   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

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