Corpus to curriculum: Developing word lists for adult learners of Welsh [PDF]
The launch of a language's first comprehensive general corpus promises a sea-change in teaching and learning resources. Effective transition from corpus to classroom is not necessarily straightforward, though; expert and end-user input is essential for ...
Tovey-Walsh, Bethan +11 more
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Frequency Word Lists and Their Variability (the Case of Russian Fiction in 1900-1930) [PDF]
Lexical system is an essential component of any natural language. Frequency word lists are a convenient representation of words functional activity in language as a whole or in some particular text.
Egoshina, Irina +6 more
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Word frequency and text complexity: an eye-tracking study of young Russian readers
Although word frequency is often associated with the cognitive load on the reader and is widely used for automated text complexity assessment, to date, no eye-tracking data have been obtained on the effectiveness of this parameter for text complexity ...
Antonina N. Laposhina +2 more
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Four papers by Brandon Kramer, Tohru Matsuo, Aaron Sponseller, Young Ae Kim, Suzuka Nishiyama, and Stuart McLean, Stuart Benson and Naheen Madarbakus-Ring, Michael McGuire and Jennifer Larson-Hall, and Atsushi Mizumoto, Geoffrey Pinchbeck, and Stuart ...
David Beglar
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Word frequency and list composition effects in associative recognition and recall [PDF]
The effects of list composition and word frequency on cued recall, associative recognition, and item recognition were examined in three experiments. For pure-frequency lists, cued recall and associative recognition show better performance on common high-frequency (HF) words than on rare low-frequency (LF) words.
S E, Clark, R E, Burchett
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LEXICAL BUNDLES OF INDONESIAN AND ENGLISH RESEARCH ARTICLES: FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
This study is preliminary research of lexical bundles in the corpus of Indonesian and English research articles that focuses on analysis of frequency and distribution.
azka saeful haq +2 more
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the contribution of the words used in language assessment instruments and/or the vocabulary used in Brazil for the development of alternative communication boards.
Andréa Carla Paura, Débora Deliberato
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Academic Vocabulary in Applied Linguistics Research Articles: A Corpus-based Study
Background: Generally operationalized as the words used more frequently in academic discourse for describing abstract ideas and processes, academic vocabulary poses a major learning burden for native and non-native speakers of English.
Ismail Xodabande +3 more
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Learning about the meanings of ambiguous words: evidence from a word-meaning priming paradigm with short narratives [PDF]
Fluent language comprehension requires people to rapidly activate and integrate context-appropriate word meanings. This process is challenging for meanings of ambiguous words that are comparatively lower in frequency (e.g., the “bird” meaning of “crane”).
Lena M. Blott +3 more
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Phase-locking of Neural Activity to the Envelope of Speech in the Delta Frequency Band Reflects Differences between Word Lists and Sentences [PDF]
The envelope of a speech signal is tracked by neural activity in the cerebral cortex. The cortical tracking occurs mainly in two frequency bands, theta (4–8 Hz) and delta (1–4 Hz).
Reichenbach, Tobias +9 more
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