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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Language patterns"”.
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Family language practices of Kazakh immigrant families in the United States
Guided by the theoretical framework of family language policy, this project aims explore Kazakh immigrants’ family language ideologies, managements, and practices in the United States. Using the semi-structured interview approach, data were collected from three Kazakh immigrant families in Southern …
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Assessing the memorability of familiar vocabulary for system assigned passphrases
… users, they tend to choose predictable natural language patterns in passphrases, resulting in vulnerability to guessing attacks. System-assigned authentication keys can be guaranteed to be secure, but this comes at a cost to memorability. In this study we investigate the memorability of …
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An Electrophysiological Investigation of Source Memory Development in Early Childhood
… in a sample of 4 and 6 year children. Patterns of brain electrical (EEG) activity were examined in order to provide a neural basis for the role of prefrontal cortex functioning during source monitoring. Children were taught a series of novel facts from two difference sources (either an …
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Machine learning for detection of fake news
… project was to create a tool for detecting the language patterns that characterize fake and real news through the use of machine learning and natural language processing techniques. The results of this project demonstrate the ability for machine learning to be useful in this task. We have built …
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Analysis and Usage of Natural Language Features in Success Prediction of Legislative Testimonies
… aims to explore the extent to<br />which the language and phraseology of a general public testimony can influence a<br />vote, and examine how this information can be used to promote civic engagement.</p> <p>The Digital Democracy database contains digital records for over 40,000 real<br …
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Examining the Conditions for Student Well-Being and Whole Person Health with Mindfulness and Somatic-Based Learning
… based mindfulness practices positively impact language patterns between students. Physical body-based activities were also shown to create greater calmness that in turn manifests as greater inclusion in the classroom. These findings make a case for integrating daily body-based mindfulness …
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The Unbreakable Circle: An Intellectual History of Michel Foucault
… division by studying the relationships—or patterns appearing in language—between empirical observations. Archaeology does not account for the truth-value associated with codified empirical observations (or statements). In other words, archaeology studies the language patterns comprising …
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Large-Scale Online Conversations About Public Health: Predicting Real-World Outcomes
… questions: (1) How can we leverage Large Language Models to extract "gists" (causal language patterns) from decade-long online discussions? (2) What kinds of gists characterize how and why people discuss drugs, and how do these gists evolve over time? (3) Do these discussion themes align …
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English-Swahili Code Switching: An Intersection between Stance and Identity
… need to be addressed when looking at linguistic patterns of bilinguals. This study also incorporates stance, as a great tool for analysis of ways in which we can predict motivations for CS in bilinguals. In an endeavor to explain the language patterns in English-Swahili bilinguals in Memphis and …
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Grammar enhanced biliteracy: Naskapi language structures for facilitating reading in Naskapi
<p>The Naskapi language is the language of instruction in the early primary grades of the school in the Naskapi community. Only recently have Naskapi-speaking teachers received formal instruction in pedagogy, with a cohort of Naskapi teachers following courses for their Bachelor of Education degree …
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Contact phenomena in the Serbian community in New Zealand: The language of the first-generation bilinguals
… situation in New Zealand. It examines the language of 37 late bilinguals born in Serbia, who have been living in New Zealand for approximately ten to twenty years. Data for the analysis was collected in the 2004-2013 period, and comprises e-mail, text and Skype messages. Starting from …
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Learning phonotactic constraints in the production of non-native consonant clusters, as reflected in speech errors
… that speakers are able to acquire new speech patterns following minimal exposure, even when these patterns involve sequences unattested in the participants’ native languages (e.g., Dell, Reed, Adams, & Meyer, 2000; Taylor and Houghton, 2005; Whalen & Dell, 2006). However, if the phonotactic …
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Case Grammar And Functional Relations In Aboutness Recognition And Relevance Decision-making In The Bibliographic Retrieval Environment
… be used to explain the correspondence between patterns of language behavior in aboutness recognition and language patterns in the texts of queries and abstracts. The test environment was a real-life bibliographic retrieval system. Thirty subject specialists (advanced graduate students and …
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Using corpora to aid in learning collocations
The potential of corpora, language databases comprised of authentic language materials from a variety of sources, has gradually trickled down to ESL and EFL classrooms (McCarthy, O'Keeffe, & Walsh, 2010) and has been associated with data-driven learning (DDL) where learners observe language …
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How we see ourselves: beginning-teacher identity formation
… 15 final-year BA Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) students and focus group interview data from 24 trainee teachers at the end of their ITE year in various age and subject specialisms. Corpus Linguistics tools were used to identify common language patterns, the findings from this …
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Advanced clinical MRI for better outcome in epilepsy surgery. Focusing on fMRI and prediction of verbal memory decline.
… results of epilepsy surgery, with focus on language and memory functions. Methods: In paper I, 25 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy were retrospectively included in the study for having been referred to high resolution 3T MRI with and without surface coils. The surface coils were placed …
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Ideology, Gender Roles, and Pronominal Choice: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English third person generic pronouns by native speakers of Arabic
… or she, singular they) by Arabic-speaking second language learners of English. This study takes a different approach to the investigation of second language (L2) acquisition and use by examining the use of L2 as a function of two social constructs: gender roles and linguistic gender ideology. In …
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A NOVEL THEORY OF SUPPORT IN SOCIAL MEDIA DISCOURSE (WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS)
… research. An investigation of sophisticated patterns of support alludes to an architecture for social media discourse. The primary patterns can include device-enabled discourse categories of purpose and content. My thesis calls this vose and nent. Advice with stance-taking offers an entry …
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Translationese indicators for human translation quality estimation (based on English-to-Russian translation of mass-media texts)
… embeddings from a range of pre-trained language models, including the state-of-the-art multilingual solution for machine translation quality estimation. Our major focus was on document-level prediction, however, where the labels and features allowed, the experiments were extended to the …
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