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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Individual words"”.
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Learning vocabulary from context: Effects of focusing attention on individual words during reading
Incidental acquisition of vocabulary knowledge during everyday reading has received attention by researchers in the attempt to explain the tremendous growth of children's vocabulary knowledge during their school years (Herman, Anderson, Pearson, & Nagy, 1987; McKeown, 1985; Nagy & Anderson, 1984; …
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Audience Members' Recall of Lyrics in a Live Choral Performance Context
… concert setting. Participants wrote down as many words contained in the lyrics as they could recall, and then briefly described in their own words the overall meaning of the lyrics. Among primary results: (a) 22.63% of participants recalled individual words from the performance; (b) recall among …
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Interactions of caregiver speech and early word learning in the Speechome corpus : computational explorations
… was observed at about 11 months, totaling 517 words by his second birthday. Why did he learn those 517 words at the precise ages that he did? To address this specific question, we examined the relationship of the child's vocabulary growth to prosodic and distributional features of the naturally …
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Context Effects in Sentence Comprehension With Schizophrenics.
The process by which the meaning of individual words is determined in the context of a sentence is an important part of sentence comprehension and more generally communication. There are numerous words in the English language with two or more different meanings (i.e., polysemous words) and in fact, …
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The Application of P-Bar Theory in Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning
… a method of error-driven learning applied to individual words at the sentence level to determine the part of speech each word represents. </p> <p>We combine these two concepts providing a transformation-based error-driven learning algorithm to improve the results obtained from the static rules …
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ENGLISH READING ABILITY IN YOUNG DEAF SIGNERS AN INVESTIGATION OF SENTENCE COMPREHENSION
… English sentence comprehension at the levels of individual words and syntax.
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Exploring Storybook Illustrations in Learning Word Meanings
… more about the readers’ process of learning words from storybook illustrations. Results suggest that illustrations play an important role in both comprehending the text and learning individual words, however issues related to the accessibility of the text and readers’ ability to use context …
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Semantic spaces : behavior, language and word learning in the Human Speechome corpus
… is used to analyze the inherent "spatiality" of individual words. A surprising connection is demonstrated between the uniqueness of a word's spatial distribution and how early it is learned by the child.
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The Teaching And Learning Of Vocabulary: With Special Reference To Bilingual Pupils
… material for a detailed analysis of exactly how individual words develop from first introduction into the pupils’ active vocabulary
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Text mining at multiple granularity: leveraging subwords, words, phrases, and sentences
… are applied to the raw texts while treating individual words as the base semantic unit. However the assumption that individual word-tokens are the correct semantic granularity does not hold for many tasks and can lead to many problems and poor task performance. To address this, this work …
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From Seeing to Saying: Perceiving, Planning, Producing
… a rudimentary sentence plan before retrieving individual words. These five experiments evaluated these views by examining the conditions under which different types of information may be relevant for production. In Experiment 1, participants told the time from analog clocks. Eye movements …
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Environmetal Education in Mexico: A Content Analysis of Primary School Textbooks
… focus of the manifest content analysis is individual words while the latent content analysis stresses excerpts and images from the textbooks. The use of an Excel database and PivotTables generated by Excel to correlate data indicates areas to examine for differences in content between the …
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Benjamin Britten: Text Setting as Cultural Custodian in Art Song
… representation of poetic form, the effect of individual words and word units and poetic meaning, in song. Musical language is repeatedly and consistently shown to highlight, to reinforce, to accentuate, to stress, to correlate and align with text; essentially song complements or contests …
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What Difference Does One Academic Year Make? Features And Development Of International Foundation Students’ Academic Lexis In Assessed Writing At A UK University
… of students’ use of academic lexis comprising individual words and phraseologies in accordance with the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000), the New Academic Vocabulary List (Gardner and Davies 2013), the Academic Collocation List (Ackermann and Chen 2013), and the Academic Formulas List …
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Notes on sexuality & space
… passages of text. Paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which ideas unfold as they are read, I have developed a comprehensive narrative of how these three essays, together, both instantiate and negate a shared discourse. To these ends, this thesis raises serious …
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Language learning at scale: Data‐driven and model‐motivated analyses of lexical and morphological development
… investigation (Chapter 2), we ask: what makes words harder or easier to learn, and what does that reveal about word learning mechanisms? We examined the factors that contribute to individual words’ learning trajectories, and the consistency of those factors across languages. This work …
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Text+Object+Action=Textact: Can text work as the main focus of a performance art practice?
… texts consist of composed pieces and borrowed individual words, phrases, quotes, a definition and a song. The random text content is designed to place the focus upon the process of the work rather than the subject content of the words, which are then open to interpretation by the viewer. Many …
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The Effect of Repeated Textual Encounters and Pictorial Glosses upon Acquiring Additional Word Senses
… the effects of multiple textual encounters of words and textual 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 …
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The Role of Precedent in Computational Models of Law
… a neural model might have learned or how individual words affect the model's behaviour, my operationalisation of this task is more informative from a legal perspective. I use influence functions, which allow me to measure the change in loss to efficiently estimate the effect of removing a …
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Knocking tones off their perch: investigating the intelligibility of Anglophone beginner learners of Mandarin Chinese at two secondary schools in the North of England
… of speaking tasks – from reading aloud single words and sentences to speaking extemporaneously in role plays. 40 L1 raters were subsequently interviewed as they tried to comprehend the learners’ randomised speech samples. I also made use of stimulated recall interviews in which learners …
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