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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Lexical variation"”.
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So You Think You Speak Canadian English: A Study of Language Regard and Lexical Variation of English-Speaking Canadians
… varieties of Canadian English, alongside a variationist study of 13 previously studied lexical variables and 10 new lexical variables. This research on perception complements previous work on production, to build a better understanding of sociolinguistic variation (see Kretzschmar, 2000 and …
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Le Web comme corpus et les expressions « figées » en français
… a concrete example – in this case, the study of lexical variation in French idiomatic expressions. The first part of this paper examines the idea of using the World Wide Web as an exploitable corpus for linguistic research and provides an overview of related theoretical and practical issues. The …
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Interpreting questions under attitudes
… semantics of question-embedding sentences: (i) lexical variation among clause-embedding predicates with respect to the selection of complement types, (ii) variability in the exhaustivity of embedded questions and (iii) variability in the veridicality of embedded questions. Based on the proposal …
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Mississippi ASL Project
… and socioeconomic status are elements that cause variation in both spoken and signed languages. ASL is a young language created by a historically marginalized group of individuals as a way to communicate thoughts and ideas in a society designed on the ability to hear. As such, ASL was recognized …
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Linguistic Variations Between Cajun French, Pedagogical French, And Mississippi Gulf Coast French
This thesis investigates lexical variation between three dialects of French in various stages of language death. Those dialects are Pedagogical French, an international language, Cajun French, an obsolescing language, and Mississippi Gulf Coast French, an extinct language. In order to determine the …
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Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties
… discusses a new methodology for measuring the variation between linguistic varieties. I compare five Arabic varieties – Modern Standard Arabic MSA, Gulf Arabic GA, Levantine Arabic LA, Egyptian Arabic EA, and Moroccan Arabic MA – considering both lexical and pronunciation variation. I introduce …
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Representations of Second Language Writing and Writers in Academic Discourse: a Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study
This study examines diachronic lexical variation in second language writing (SLW) research and the discursive representations of second language (L2) writing and writers in the field’s academic discourse as captured in a purpose-built specialized corpus of the Journal of Second Language Writing …
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A novel dependency-based evaluation metric for machine translation
… and fluently will be given a low score if the lexical and syntactic choices it contains, even though perfectly legitimate, are not present in at least one of the references. Necessarily, this score would differ from a much more favourable human judgment that such a translation would receive. …
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Data-Driven Language Understanding for Spoken Dialogue Systems
… challenges include the modelling of linguistic variation, speech recognition errors and the effects of dialogue context. Recently, the focus of language understanding research has moved to making use of word embeddings induced from large textual corpora using unsupervised methods. The work …