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Examining the cognitive costs of counterfactual language comprehension: Evidence from ERPs [PDF]
, 2015 Recent empirical research suggests that understanding a counterfactual event (e.g. ‘If Josie had revised, she would have passed her exams’) activates mental representations of both the factual and counterfactual versions of events.
Cane, James E., Ferguson, Heather J.
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A Deep Generative Model of Vowel Formant Typology
, 2018 What makes some types of languages more probable than others? For instance, we know that almost all spoken languages contain the vowel phoneme /i/; why should that be?
Cotterell, Ryan, Eisner, Jason
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Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2301-2316, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article investigates text complexity in Chinese‐language textbooks for primary school students (Grades 1 to 6) in Hong Kong. Our analysis, based on verb frames in Mandarin VerbNet, shows a developmental shift in the linguistic input in first language (L1) education: Students begin with a focus on core frame elements in lower grades and ...
Tianyuan Cai +2 more
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Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension
, 2017 In this paper we study the problem of answering cloze-style questions over documents. Our model, the Gated-Attention (GA) Reader, integrates a multi-hop architecture with a novel attention mechanism, which is based on multiplicative interactions between ...
Cohen, William W. +4 more
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A Span-Extraction Dataset for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension
, 2019 Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, the existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. In this paper, we introduce a Span-Extraction dataset for Chinese
Che, Wanxiang +7 more
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Uso del test cloze como herramienta para medir y mejorar la comprensión lectora
Ciencia y EducaciónDiversas evaluaciones realizadas por instituciones nacionales e internacionales evidencian alarmantes deficiencias en el desempeño lingüístico de los estudiantes ecuatorianos, particularmente en la comprensión lectora.
Joselyne Fernanda Martínez Muzha +2 more
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The comprehension revolution : a twenty-year history of process and practice related to reading comprehension [PDF]
, 1985 Includes ...
Bruce, Bertram C., Pearson, P. David
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Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2009 La prueba de decisión léxica ha demostrado ser una medida práctica para medir la habilidad global en un idioma. El presente estudio intenta medir cuán efectiva resulta la prueba de decisión léxica con dos grupos de estudiantes universitarios bilingües en
Marta Fairclough +1 more
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The Lexical Decision Test as a Tool for Spanish University Students Placement
Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2009 The lexical decision test has shown to be a practical measure of overall language proficiency. For this study, the effectiveness of a lexical decision test was measured with two groups of Spanish/English bilingual university students at four levels. The
Marta Fairclough +1 more
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Langues & CulturesThis research paper was conducted to investigate and report the phonological problems that Master One English as a Foreign Language students at the university of Adrar face when they listen to spoken discourse, especially when they try to perceive and ...
Lahcène BENYAGOUB , Othmane KEDDOUCI
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