Specialized vocabulary across languages: The case of traditional Chinese medicine
This paper reports on the creation of specialized word lists in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which is a discipline using vocabulary across languages (i.e., Chinese and English) and involves learners with different L1 backgrounds. First, a TCM Word
Cailing Lu, Averil Coxhead
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The Words of Affectivity. Affect, Category, and Social Evaluation Norms for 400 Polish Adjectives
Emotional adjectives can be grouped into two main categories: denoting and connoting stable (personality) traits and denoting and connoting transient (mood) states.
Szczepan J. Grzybowski +3 more
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Evaluating corpora with word lists and word difficulty
This study examines the application of an IRT analysis of words on lists including the General Service List (GSL), New General Service List (NGSL), Academic Word List (AWL), New Academic Word List (NAWL), and TOEIC Service List (TSL).
Brent A. Culligan
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Integrative priming occurs rapidly and uncontrollably during lexical processing [PDF]
Lexical priming, whereby a prime word facilitates recognition of a related target word (e.g., nurse ? doctor), is typically attributed to association strength, semantic similarity, or compound familiarity.
Estes, Zachary, Jones, Lara L.
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Exploring learners’ understanding of technical vocabulary in Traditional Chinese Medicine
This study explores English for specific purposes learners’ understanding of technical words in a previously-developed technical word list in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The principal aim was to estimate what kind of technical terms pose problems
Cailing Lu +2 more
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Acoustic masking disrupts time-dependent mechanisms of memory encoding in word-list recall. [PDF]
Cousins KA +3 more
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Selection of preeminent list in word recognition score test for adult with normal hearing
Introduction: Speech audiometry is one of the most essential components of the current audiologic test battery. It provides information regarding hearing sensitivity and speech intelligibility at supra threshold levels.
Farnush Jarolahi +5 more
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Temporal and visual source memory deficits among ecstasy/polydrug users [PDF]
Objectives: The present paper seeks to investigate whether source memory judgements are adversely affected by recreational illicit drug use. Method: Sixty-two ecstasy/polydrug users and 75 non ecstasy users completed a source memory task, in which they ...
Beatty +45 more
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A Hard Science Spoken Word List
A Hard Science Spoken Word List (HSWL) was developed and validated to help second language learners of hard sciences better comprehend academic speech at English-medium universities.
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang
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Impact of word embedding models on text analytics in deep learning environment: a review
The selection of word embedding and deep learning models for better outcomes is vital. Word embeddings are an n-dimensional distributed representation of a text that attempts to capture the meanings of the words.
Deepak Suresh Asudani +2 more
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