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Learning word order at birth: A NIRS study
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017 In language, the relative order of words in sentences carries important grammatical functions. However, the developmental origins and the neural correlates of the ability to track word order are to date poorly understood.
Silvia Benavides-Varela, Judit Gervain
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Academic Word List Knowledge of Malaysian ESL Undergraduates
GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 2018 Academic words are specialised vocabulary of academic texts. The knowledge of these words is vital for comprehension and communication purposes, particularly among university students, to enable them to engage with authentic complex input, such as ...
N. Sulaiman +2 more
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How many is enough? -- Statistical Principles for Lexicostatistics
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Lexicostatistics has been applied in linguistics to inform phylogenetic relations among languages. There are two important yet not well-studied parameters in this approach: the conventional size of vocabulary list to collect potentially true cognates and
Menghan Zhang, Tao Gong
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A corpus-based lexical analysis of subject-specific university textbooks for English majors
Ampersand, 2015 This study is a corpus-based lexical analysis of subject-specific university textbooks which purports to explore lexical text coverage and frequency distribution of words from the Academic Word List and the British National Corpus frequency-based word ...
Konul Hajiyeva
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A Characterization of Morphic Words with Polynomial Growth
, 2020 A morphic word is obtained by iterating a morphism to generate an infinite word, and then applying a coding. We characterize morphic words with polynomial growth in terms of a new type of infinite word called a $\textit{zigzag word}$.
Smith, Tim
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Journal of Cognition, 2022 Oberauer (2019) suggested that the working memory capacity in word lists only limits the binding of words to serial positions, with no limit for the words themselves.
Nelson Cowan
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, 2020 In the February 2020 Word Ways the article 0.1479% Redundancy presented a list of words and names beginning with 675 of 676 possible two-letter combinations, or digraphs.
Francis, Darryl
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Word frequency effects found in free recall are rather due to Bayesian surprise
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The inconsistent relation between word frequency and free recall performance (sometimes a positive one, sometimes a negative one, and sometimes no relation) and the non-monotonic relation found between the two cannot all be explained by current theories.
Serban C. Musca, Anthony Chemero
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Transition Property for $\alpha$-Power Free Languages with $\alpha\geq 2$ and $k\geq 3$ Letters
, 2020 In 1985, Restivo and Salemi presented a list of five problems concerning power free languages. Problem $4$ states: Given $\alpha$-power-free words $u$ and $v$, decide whether there is a transition from $u$ to $v$. Problem $5$ states: Given $\alpha$-power-
A Carpi +11 more
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Effect of Sugars in Solutions on Immediate and Delayed Word List Recall in Normal Weight Boys [PDF]
International Journal of School Health, 2014 Background: Dietary glucose improves memory performance in several adult populations; however, there are no comparative studies of commonly consumed sugars on memory performance in children. Objectives: The objective was to compare the effect of glucose,
Tina Akhavan +3 more
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