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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Glosses"”.
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Effects of Textual Glosses and Sentence-Level Audio Glosses on on-Line Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Recall
Furthermore, the study suggests that the perceived usefulness of help functions might be task and skill dependent. The fact that the sentence-level audio help function was not well received might be due to the particular subject composition (85 percent Asians), the task (a testing/exercise …
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De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses
This thesis offers a reappraisal of the Sabine glosses through the analysis of thirty-nine words, all glossed explicitly as Sabine in ancient sources ranging from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE. The study of the Sabine glosses found in ancient grammarians and antiquarians goes back …
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The Effects of Hypertext Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Meta-Analysis
… the past decades. In particular with hypertext glosses or multimedia annotations, a number of studies have indicated that hypertext glossed input is comprehensible input and has made it possible for L2 readers to benefit all from extensive reading. This study examines (1) effects of hypertext …
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The Effect of Repeated Textual Encounters and Pictorial Glosses upon Acquiring Additional Word Senses
… encounters of words supplemented with pictorial glosses upon the ability of a learner of French to infer additional word senses—senses of target words that were not previously encountered. Twenty-nine participants were randomly divided into two groups, Groups A and B, and were subjected to two …
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New senses and formations in Old English glosses and translations, with particular reference to the psalter and the gospels
… innovative expressions in Old English religious glosses and translations, this thesis raises questions about the nature of the lexical items which are conventionally known as ‘semantic loans’ and ‘loan formations’. They are treated in previous studies as results of language contact and discussed …
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Gloss positioning for a gaze aware L2 reading aid
… dynamically providing overlaid captions – or glosses – interlinearly, in the right margin, and a combination of both glosses. To test the usability of each type of gloss, we ran participant studies (N=19) with French learners where marginal glosses led to an increase in vocabulary matching …
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Dlíthe Luath-Ghaeilge: Staidéar ar Theanga agus ar Dhátú Gluaiseanna agus Tráchtanna
… commentary, edited by Fergus Kelly (2014); the glosses and commentaries copied by Scribe 1 of Cáin Lánamna (ed. Charlene Eska, 2010); and the glosses on Gúbretha Caratniad, edited by Rudolph Thurneysen (1925). The crux of the research is to determine to what period of the Irish language the …
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Aspects of the collocational analysis of meaning with special reference to some Biblical Hebrew anatomical idioms
… in Hebrew through provision of English glosses of Hebrew passages (rarely of more than a biblical verse in length). Typically these glosses are from NEB, although where NEB's rendering does not closely match the Hebrew sequence (e.g., if NEB omits certain Hebrew phrases because they …
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Studies in Medieval Irish Legal Ancillary Material
… of legal texts, which generated a broad range of glosses and commentary. Focus has hitherto generally been on the older strata of material and their immediate glossing. This dissertation begins with in-text glossing, and goes beyond the immediate glossing context to consider other forms of what I …
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Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo -Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England
… antiquary Laurence Nowell's Old English lexical glosses, English place-name index, and Old English-Latin legal glossary in his copy of Richard Howlet's Abcedarium Anglico-Latinum and relates each of his projects to national identity formation in Tudor England. Nowell wrote thousands of Old …
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Le 'Chiose Cagliaritane' alla 'Commedia': edizione critica e commento
… on the Commedia, a set of anonymous vernacular glosses on Dante’s poem, transmitted exclusively by manuscript 76 of the University Library of Cagliari, produced toward the end of the 14th century by an author from eastern Tuscany. In addition to preparing a new critical text that can surpass the …
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"Oberon's Henchman; Or The Legend of The Three Sisters" by Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Critical Edition
… within the ballad, extensive notes and glosses to guide and enhance the reader's understanding, and appendices to supplement the reading.</p>
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The Politics of Town Hall Meetings: Analyzing Constituent Relations-in-Interaction
… <em>Constituent relations-in-interaction</em> glosses a complex set of interactional practices and procedures through which ensembles of participants bring town hall meetings, as structures of social interaction, into being. This study uses conversation analysis, the study of …
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English-Khmer medical dictionary
… several months in Thailand), eliciting glosses and compiling definitions in the Cambodian (Khmer) language of English medical terms to be studied by Cambodian nursing students. The thesis also includes in introduction and conclusion presenting, defending, and evaluating facets of the …
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Learner Modelling for Individualised Reading in a Second Language
… of machine translation to automatically generate glosses, but is high enough that a translation dictionary is required as a backup. The classroom study demonstrated that when aided by glosses students can read at over 100 words per minute if they know 95% of the words, whereas compared to the 98% …
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Glocalizing Forests: Transnational Networks and the Geography of Global Climate Policy
… active in global climate policy, however, glosses over the challengesof moving from agreement to implementation and underestimates the potentialof sub-global actions. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation(REDD+), a popular initiative which aims to support forest conservation …
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Definition modelling for English and Portuguese: a comparison between models and settings
… evaluation suggests that automatically generated glosses are useful for translators, although post-editing may be required to achieve optimal quality.
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Decolonizing the Body
… the Spanish Colonial system and the Gold Rush, glosses over the genocide of her indigenous inhabitants and the oppression experienced by those who survived these historical traumas. By focusing on the works of three indigenous poets (Deborah Miranda, Natalie Diaz, and Tommy Pico) who were born …
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Extracting conceptual structures from multiple sources
… organizing the nouns, the information in glosses and the inheritance of properties principle. (b) Feature Norms like extraction from corpora. We propose a method to acquire feature norm like structures from corpora using weakly supervised methods. (c) Conceptual Structure from Wikipedia. A …
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The effects of hypermedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension
… interest has been the effect of multiple-choice glosses with computer feedback, which may engage learners in inferential processes that affect the encoding and storage of lexical information in memory (Nagata, 1999). Researchers have argued that providing contextual support through pre-modified …
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