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Marking Contrastive Topics in a Topic Shift Context: Contrastive Adverbs versus Emphatic Pronouns
Discours, 2022 This paper is about two competing marking strategies for contrastive topics in a topic shift context in French: emphatic pronouns and contrastive adverbs. We analyse the choice between these markers in one specific syntactic position, i.e.
Jorina Brysbaert, Karen Lahousse
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Language Identification as part of the Text Corpus Creation Pipeline at the Language Bank of Finland
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022 The Language Bank of Finland hosts text corpora originating from Finland. Two of the most used ones are the Newspaper and Periodical Corpus of the National Library of Finland and the Suomi24 Corpus. The Language Bank has received considerable additions
Tommi Jauhiainen +3 more
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ALSIC: Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d'Information et de Communication, 2020 Johns and King (1991: iii) and Bernardini (2004: 16) consider corpora as helpful learning resources which can be explored by foreign language learners. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to support this assumption.
Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix
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Specialized vocabulary across languages: The case of traditional Chinese medicine
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023 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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Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 2017 This paper deals with the use of readability metrics as indices of learmers' linguistic features in a written corpus of Spanish learners of English L2. Seventeen measures of readability are presented and computed for 200 samples of written argumentative ...
Paula Lissón
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Freely Available Arabic Corpora: A Scoping Review
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, 2022 Background: Corpora play a vital role when training machine learning (ML) models and building systems that use natural language processing (NLP). It can be challenging for researchers to access corpora in a language other than English, and even more so ...
Arfan Ahmed +5 more
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Élaboration d’une liste de vocabulaire dans un contexte FLE
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2022 In this article, we discuss the elaboration and use of vocabulary lists aimed for learners of French as a foreign language. These lists are commonly based on corpora, which, in the ideal case, are representative, relevant and large.
Christina Lindqvist
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Research in Corpus Linguistics, 2021 This paper reports on the efforts of twelve national teams in building the International Comparable Corpus (ICC; https://korpus.cz/icc) that will contain highly comparable datasets of spoken, written and electronic registers. The languages currently covered are Czech, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Swedish and, more
Čermáková, Ann +7 more
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Vocabulary knowledge in the production of written texts: a case study on EFL language learners
Revista Tecnológica, 2017 Vocabulary is essential in second and foreign language acquisition because without its appropriate and sufficient knowledge learners cannot understand others or express their own feelings.
Rodrigo Tovar Viera
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Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2018 Teaching students, majoring in linguistics, writing skills is one of the components of the goals of teaching a foreign language in a university.
Y. I. Syomich
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