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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Research Methodology and Orientation of Papers Published from 1980 to 2019 in Applied Linguistics Journals [PDF]
This study explored the research methodology and research orientation of the papers published in seven world-leading applied linguistics journals from 1980 to 2019.
Hussein Meihami
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The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analyzing mean call durations [PDF]
Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and word frequency are negatively correlated.
Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy +3 more
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GP perspectives on hospital discharge letters : an interview and focus group study [PDF]
Background: Written discharge communication following inpatient or outpatient clinic discharge is essential for communicating information to the GP, but GPs’ opinions on discharge communication are seldom sought.
Dale, Jeremy +4 more
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Comparing the semantic structures of lexicon of Mandarin and English
This paper presents a cross-language study of lexical semantics within the framework of distributional semantics. We used a wide range of predefined semantic categories in Mandarin and English and compared the clusterings of these categories using ...
Yi Yang, R. Harald Baayen
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Korpus OnomOs: principy a příklady aplikací [PDF]
The study introduces OnomOs, a new corpus of Czech texts with annotation of proper names. The corpus was compiled by onomasticians from the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, and made available by the Institute of the ...
Michal Místecký +3 more
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Narrative Language as an Expression of Individual and Group Identity [PDF]
Scientific Narrative Psychology integrates quantitative methodologies into the study of identity. Its methodology, Narrative Categorical Analysis, and its toolkit, NarrCat, were both originally developed by the Hungarian Narrative Psychology Group ...
Csertő, István +10 more
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Frequency effects in linear discriminative learning
Word frequency is a strong predictor in most lexical processing tasks. Thus, any model of word recognition needs to account for how word frequency effects arise. The Discriminative Lexicon Model (DLM) models lexical processing with mappings between words'
Maria Heitmeier +5 more
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The article introduces translative linguistics as a special branch in the study of natural languages and describes the history of its development.
N. D. Golev
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Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of "Bias" in NLP
We survey 146 papers analyzing "bias" in NLP systems, finding that their motivations are often vague, inconsistent, and lacking in normative reasoning, despite the fact that analyzing "bias" is an inherently normative process.
Barocas, Solon +3 more
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