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Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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NOMINAL PARADIGMS IN ENGLISH [PDF]
The distinction between lexicon and grammar is made at the morphological subsystem, between the regular and irregular forms. For nominal and verbal regular forms, the redundancies can be generalized if the linguistic data are represented by grammatical ...
Nadia Luiza Dincă
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Abstract This study examined if gaze‐contingent textual enhancement could be used as an interactive focus‐on‐form device to promote learning of second language (L2) collocations from computer‐mediated reading tasks. Seventy‐five Chinese ESL users read three English texts that contained twelve target collocations, presented under one of three conditions:
Jookyoung Jung+5 more
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Phraseological adjective + noun calques loaned from English into Croatian
This paper describes phraseological calques loaned from English into Croatian whose common denominator is their adjective + noun structure. Eighteen such idioms found in literature as confirmed examples of calques from English have been included in the ...
Jasmina Jelčić
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Substantive Adjectives in Russian Proverbs
The process of substantivating adjectives in Russian is considered. The relevance of the topic is determined by the subject of research: transient processes in the field of parts of speech reflect and fix at the level of lexical and grammatical semantics
S. L. Mikheeva
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Sep‐NMS: Unlocking the Aptitude of Two‐Stage Referring Expression Comprehension
ABSTRACT Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate a specific region in an image described by a natural language. Existing two‐stage methods generate multiple candidate proposals in the first stage, followed by selecting one of these proposals as the grounding result in the second stage.
Jing Wang+4 more
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Unified Neural Lexical Analysis Via Two‐Stage Span Tagging
ABSTRACT Lexical analysis is a fundamental task in natural language processing, which involves several subtasks, such as word segmentation (WS), part‐of‐speech (POS) tagging, and named entity recognition (NER). Recent works have shown that taking advantage of relatedness between these subtasks can be beneficial.
Yantuan Xian+5 more
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This brief encyclopedia entry addresses three questions: What are verbing and nouning? Why are they important for language evolution? And are prescriptive grammarians right to be so unreceptive?
Gomashie, Grace, Stainton, Robert
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A noun scale semantic differential [PDF]
William Bogartz, Bertram Sippola
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In recent years, the kibbutz – a once‐idealized socialist commune in Israel – has become a common object of critique in Israeli popular culture. Many critiques focus on what can be described as the old kibbutz's ‘moral harshness’, highlighting the prevalence of informal surveillance, peer pressure, and public moralizing.
Omri Senderowicz
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