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Vocabulary Opens the Door; Creativity Guides the Search: Complementary Contributions to Second Language Semantic Fluency Across Domains

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Semantic fluency, the ability to retrieve words within a category, relies on lexical knowledge, semantic memory and executive control mechanisms. A richer, interconnected semantic memory and optimal executive control, as seen in creative individuals, enhance fluency through broad associative searches and quicker access to remote concepts ...
Almudena Fernández‐Fontecha
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Linguistic interviewing as a productive method of studying linguistic consciousness (pedagogical aspect) [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
The article describes some methods of linguistic interviewing that are used in research by scientists of the Russian Voronezh psycholinguistic school. An overview and analysis of such techniques as attribution of given signs to meaning, free attribution ...
Mezhidova Kamila, Makhaev Mair, Mamalova Khouzu   +2 more
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Assessing Digital Interactional Competence for Second‐Language and First‐Language Chinese Speakers: Effects of Proficiency, Mode, and Setting

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
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Mechanisms of Building the Text Contents and Meaning in the Process of its Perception: Psycholinguistic Approach

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2017
The purpose of the article is to investigate the semantic structure of a text with the help of an experimental method. Text meaning and sense are supposed to be the components of the semantic structure.
Nataliya V. Matveeva
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Semantic diversity:A measure of contextual variation in word meaning based on latent semantic analysis [PDF]

, 2013
Semantic ambiguity is typically measured by summing the number of senses or dictionary definitions that a word has. Such measures are somewhat subjective and may not adequately capture the full extent of variation in word meaning, particularly for ...
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid, Lambon Ralph, Matthew A., Lambon Ralph, Matthew A, Rogers, Timothy T, Hoffman, Paul, Rogers, Timothy T.   +5 more
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes, Scott Crossley, Wesley Morris, Joon Suh Choi   +3 more
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Contextual Learning of New Meanings for Familiar Words: Perturbation of Original Meanings Occurs Without Deliberate Study

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study investigated learning new meanings of known words from reading, following Hulme et al.’s (2018) study. English speakers read four short stories containing 16 critical words (i.e., familiar word forms assigned invented secondary meanings).
Nurul Aini Mohd Jelani, Irina Elgort
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Derivationally Active Secondary Verb Prefixes in Modern Russian: Psycholinguistic Research

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This study determines the status of secondary verb prefixes in the linguistic consciousness of native Russian speakers as derivationally active means of word formation.
Yuliya V. Serysheva, Yuliya A. Vostrova, Yuliya O. Okhorzina   +2 more
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The Problem of Sample Representativeness for Conducting Experimental and Broad Psychological Research

Психолінгвістика, 2018
The article is devoted to the problem of creating a representative sample of respondents in the course of experimental and broad psycholinguistic research, first of all, its quantitative composition and structure.
Iia Gordiienko-Mytrofanova, Yevhen Pidchasov, Serhii Sauta, Iuliia Kobzieva   +3 more
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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
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