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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Homonyms."”.
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Soft Constraints on Mapping Form to Meaning in Lexical Acquisition
Research in diachronic Linguistics has shown that homonyms are often avoided in language. This study proposes that this trend is a result of general cognitive principles at work during language acquisition. In support of this proposition, the first two experiments present findings demonstrating …
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"""Paper Has Been My Ruin"": On the Organization of Polysemous Senses"
… 3 compared polysemous sorting to a baseline of homonyms, whose meanings are unrelated, and showed that people see more connections between the different polysemous senses than between the different homonym meanings. Experiments 4 and 5 looked at whether there are relations between the different …
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Using an ontology to improve the web search experience
… search engine are often ambiguous, referring to homonyms. The results in these cases are a mixture of links to documents that contain different meanings of the search terms. Current search engines provide suggested query completions in a dropdown list. However, such lists are not well organized, …
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The Application of Chaos Game Representations and Deep Learning for Grapevine Genetic Testing
… clones and the historical issues of synonyms and homonyms. DNA-based identification, superior to morphology-based methods in accuracy, has been used as the standard genetic testing method, but not without shortcomings. To overcome some of the limitations of the traditional microsatellite-marker …
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The Journey Back: Revisiting Childhood Trauma
… devices and structures (such as metaphors, homonyms and intertextuality) that are part of this process. </p>
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An analysis of the semantic field of the German particles "Überhaupt" and "Eigentlich"
… words particles, more than other words, have homonyms with different functions, a fact which complicated a proper classification. Secondly, particles were supposed to be negligeable entities because of their lack of any proper syntactic function. Thirdly, particles were regarded stylistically …
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Misappropriation of adjectives by Grade 7 non-native English language learners: A case study of four independent rural primary schools in Manombe Circuit, Mopani District
… errors on the use of similar-sounding words (homonyms) (for example, further/ farther), syntactic errors, morphology errors as well as errors in the use of semantically-similar words (latter /last) recorded the highest number of errors, compared to errors on adjectives of quantity, possessive …
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Ecology, Ecophysiology and Morpho-colorimetric analysis of wild grapevines populations of Sardinia and relationships with some autochthonous cultivars
… as false attributions (synonyms and/or homonyms) due to the existence of different dialects within the same territory. The observations made in the field in order to detect the presence of young seedlings in the various island populations confirm that the germination period ranges from …
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An explanatory sequential mixed methods study : solving mathematics word problems among African American students.
This explanatory sequential mixed methods study, which consisted of QUAN → to qual investigated the impact of mathematics word problems among African American students in the seventh grade. This study applied a culturally relevant education (CRE) lens to examine how students solve mathematics word …
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Does It Really Matter?
After we moved to San Marcos so I could attend graduate school, my wife and I visited several local churches with hopes of finding a church home. On one of these visits at a local church, we were browsing in the foyer before the meeting started, and I found a pamphlet about the church. When I read …