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The Vagueness of Vagueness in Noun Phrases
, 2021 International audienceNatural language text has a great potential to feed knowledge bases. However, natural language is not always precise-and sometimes intentionally so. In this position paper, we study vagueness in noun phrases. We manually analyze the
Suchanek, Fabian +2 more
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Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
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A Syntactic Analysis of Noun Phrases in ‘Seasons’ by Wave to Earth
LingualThis research aims to examine the syntactic structure of noun phrases used in the song “Seasons” by Wave to Earth. The analysis found thirteen noun phrases divided into three main patterns, The identification of thirteen noun phrases in the lyrics is ...
Marda Lena +3 more
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Marca sustantiva : topicalidad e iconicidad en la frase nominal en inglés antiguo
Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013 This paper puts forward a definition of the concepts of communicative substantive markedness and cognitive substantive markedness that is based, respectively, on the degree of topicality and the degree of iconicity of the noun phrase. Two conclusions are
Francisco Javier Martín Arista +1 more
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Genitive quantifiers in Japanese as reverse partitives
, 2004 Quantificational determiners in Japanese can be marked with genitive case. Current analyses (for example by Watanabe, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, to appear) treat the genetive case marker in these cases as semantically vacuous, but we show ...
Kazuko Yatsushiro +3 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture the broadest patterns of lexical variation.
Taehyeong Kim +4 more
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Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP
, 2008 The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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This paper analyzes Chinese noun phrases by applying principles and methods that combine form and meaning, description and explanation, and structure and function. The research employs parallel transformation tests to systematically examine the syntactic
Aftab Azeem +2 more
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A study of generic noun phrases in child Cantonese
, 2016 This study investigated how Cantonese-speaking children use and comprehend generic noun phrases. Previous studies revealed that generic noun phrases were found in the speech of English-speaking children at age two.
Szeto, Ka-sinn, Kitty, 司徒嘉善
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