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Religious Violence and Twitter: Networks of Knowledge, Empathy and Fascination

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Twitter analysis through data mining, text analysis, and visualization, coupled with the application of actor-network-theory, reveals a coalition of heterogenous religious affiliations around grief and fascination.
Samah Senbel, Carly Seigel, Emily Bryan
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The effect of high- and low-frequency previews and sentential fit on word skipping during reading [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In a previous gaze-contingent boundary experiment, Angele and Rayner (2013) found that readers are likely to skip a word that appears to be the definite article the even when syntactic constraints do not allow for articles to occur in that position.
Angele, Bernhard   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Subtlex-UK: A New and Improved Word Frequency Database for British English

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2014
We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the
Walter J. B. van Heuven   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Word Frequency Cues Word Order in Adults: Cross-Linguistic Evidence

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
One universal feature of human languages is the division between grammatical functors and content words. From a learnability point of view, functors might provide entry points or anchors into the syntactic structure of utterances due to their high ...
Judit eGervain   +9 more
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Syllable frequency and word frequency effects in spoken and written word production in a non-alphabetic script

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
The effects of word frequency and syllable frequency are well-established phenomena in domain such as spoken production in alphabetic languages. Chinese, as a non-alphabetic language, presents unique lexical and phonological properties in speech ...
Qingfang eZhang, Cheng eWang
doaj   +1 more source

Niche as a determinant of word fate in online groups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Patterns of word use both reflect and influence a myriad of human activities and interactions. Like other entities that are reproduced and evolve, words rise or decline depending upon a complex interplay between {their intrinsic properties and the ...
A Baronchelli   +65 more
core   +4 more sources

Lexical and post-lexical complexity effects on eye movements in reading

open access: yesJournal of Eye Movement Research, 2011
The current study investigated how a post-lexical complexity manipulation followed by a lexical complexity manipulation affects eye movements during reading.
Tessa Warren   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Positive words carry less information than negative words [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We show that the frequency of word use is not only determined by the word length \cite{Zipf1935} and the average information content \cite{Piantadosi2011}, but also by its emotional content.
A Chmiel   +45 more
core   +2 more sources

Kairós in science blogging: immediacy, self-expression and audience engagement

open access: yesDNA Di Nulla Academia, 2021
The present paper explores the rhetorical concept of «kairós» as a decisive factor of the argumentative success of scientific communications to highlight the linguistic shape it takes in science blogs.
Maria Freddi
doaj   +1 more source

The company that words keep: comparing the statistical structure of child- versus adult-directed language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were ...
Block   +14 more
core   +1 more source

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