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Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation [PDF]

, 2013
Many contextual inferences in utterance interpretation are explained as following from the nature of conversation and the assumption that participants are rational.
Breheny, Richard, Ferguson, Heather J., Katsos, Napoleon   +2 more
core   +1 more source

U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo, Aaron J. Staples, Jayson L. Lusk, Glynn T. Tonsor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
wiley   +1 more source

Task Effects on Sentence Comprehension in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Sentence–Picture-Matching Tests

Languages
The present study compared two sentence–picture-matching tests in Greek, namely the Syntactic Proficiency Test and the sentence comprehension subtest of the Diagnostic Verbal Intelligence Quotient (DVIQ) battery, to assess complex sentence comprehension ...
Maria Andreou, Konstantina Sonia Antoniou, Eleni Peristeri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Reference: Morphological Marking in Japanese

Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2017
This study investigates reference resolution with repeated-name anaphors in Japanese, particularly focusing on (i) subject anaphor with the nominative postposition ga, (ii) topic-subject anaphor with the topic postposition wa, (iii) scrambled object ...
Shinichi SHOJI
doaj   +1 more source

Large Language Model in Materials Science: Roles, Challenges, and Strategic Outlook

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping materials science. Acting as Oracle, Surrogate, Quant, and Arbiter, they now extract knowledge, predict properties, gauge risk, and steer decisions within a traceable loop. Overcoming data heterogeneity, hallucinations, and poor interpretability demands domain‐adapted models, cross‐modal data standards, and ...
Jinglan Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Xu Ye, Yulin Yang, Bin Ai   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural activity related to productive vocabulary knowledge effects during second language comprehension

Neuroscience Research
Second language learners and educators often believe that improving one’s listening ability hinges on acquiring an extensive vocabulary and engaging in thorough listening practice.
Takara Kenza Allal-Sumoto, Duygu Şahin, Hiroaki Mizuhara   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Autonomous Large Language Model‐Agent Framework for Transparent and Local Time Series Forecasting

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Architecture of the proposed large language model (LLM)‐based agent framework for autonomous time series forecasting in thermal power generation systems. The framework operates through a vertical pipeline initiated by natural language queries from users, which are processed by the LLM Agent Core powered by Llama.cpp and a ReAct loop with persistent ...
William Gouvêa Buratto, Gabriel Villarrubia Gonzalez, Ademir Nied, Laio Oriel Seman, Anne Carolina Rodrigues Klaar, Stefano Frizzo Stefenon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptual representations in L1 and L2 spatial and abstract language processing: applying an innovative sentence-diagram verification paradigm

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
IntroductionPerceptual representations in language comprehension were examined using sentence-picture verification tasks. However, concerns have been raised regarding the suitability of concrete pictures for representing abstract concepts compared to ...
Menghan Wang, Helen Zhao
doaj   +1 more source

Lexically specific knowledge and individual differences in adult native speakers’ processing of the English passive

, 2014
This article provides experimental evidence for the role of lexically specific representations in the processing of passive sentences and considerable education-related differences in comprehension of the passive construction.
Dabrowska, Ewa, Street, James
core   +1 more source