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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone +3 more
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Effective faking of verbal deception detection with target‐aligned adversarial attacks
Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Deception detection through analysing language is a promising avenue using both human judgements and automated machine learning judgements. For both forms of credibility assessment, automated adversarial attacks that rewrite deceptive statements to appear truthful pose a serious threat.
Bennett Kleinberg +2 more
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The significance of pauses in EFL listening comprehension tests [PDF]
, 2007 Many EFL (English as a Foreign Language) listening comprehension tests use multiple-choice formats. How well such tests are devised is a crucial issue in EFL assessment and instruction.
Zare-ee, Abbas
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Against the Manhattan project framing of AI alignment
Mind &Language, EarlyView.In response to the worry that autonomous generally intelligent artificial agents may at some point take over control of human affairs a common suggestion is that we should “solve the alignment problem” for such agents. We show that current discourse around this suggestion often uses a particular framing of artificial intelligence (AI) alignment as ...
Simon Friederich, Leonard Dung
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The on-line processing of unaccusativity in Greek agrammatism [PDF]
, 2013 We investigated the on-line processing of unaccusative and unergative sentences in a group of eight Greek-speaking individuals diagnosed with Broca aphasia and a group of language-unimpaired subjects used as the baseline. The processing of unaccusativity
Balaguer +18 more
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Uniquely human temporal thoughts
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Life on Earth will eventually come to an end. The thought expressed in the previous sentence is about a point in time that is not known to the individual entertaining the thought. This paper is concerned with the nature of such temporal thoughts. We propose that the capacity to mentally represent thoughts about non‐specific temporal intervals is a ...
İsa Kerem Bayırlı
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When does assonance make L2 lexical phrases memorable? [PDF]
, 2014 Among the challenges that second language learners face is that of acquiring a large num-ber of lexical phrases such as collocations and idiomatic expressions (e.g. Pawley & Syder, 1983; Willis, 1990; Nattinger & DeCarrico, 1992; Lewis, 1993).
Boers, Frank +2 more
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Social signals and algorithmic trading of Bitcoin
, 2015 The availability of data on digital traces is growing to unprecedented sizes, but inferring actionable knowledge from large-scale data is far from being trivial.
Garcia, David, Schweitzer, Frank
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Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition [PDF]
, 2009 It was long considered to be impossible to learn grammar based on linguistic experience alone. In the past decade, however, advances in usage-based linguistic theory, computational linguistics, and developmental psychology changed the view on this matter.
Behrens Heike +8 more
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Neuronal activation for semantically reversible sentences [PDF]
, 2009 Semantically reversible sentences are prone to misinterpretation and take longer for typically developing children and adults to comprehend; they are also particularly problematic for those with language difficulties such as aphasia or Specific Language ...
Cathy J. Price +9 more
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