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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"Linguistic features"”.
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A corpus-based study of some linguistic features of metaphor
… of thought. This has implications for formal features of individual linguistic metaphors and for the lexical relations holding between them. The linguistic data used by metaphor researchers has largely been either intuitively derived or taken from small hand-sorted collections of texts. As …
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Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using linguistic features and constraints
… the lexicon is effectively pruned using broad linguistic constraints. In the original Huttenlocher-Zue model, the authors had proposed six linguistic features motivated by the manner of pronunciation. The first pass classifies speech signals into a sequence of linguistic features, and only …
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Decoding Neural Processing of Linguistic Features From Large-Scale Intracranial Recordings and Naturalistic Language Stimuli
… that appears to represent information about linguistic meaning. However, no study has yet produced a comprehensive survey of how semantic information is represented in the brain, utilizing high-resolution neural recording. Using data from the Brain TreeBank, a large-scale multimodal dataset …
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An analysis of linguistic features of male cosmetics advertisements from FHM (For Him) and GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) magazines
… advertisements incorporating various persuasive features, such as deviant language, images and colours, to mention just a few, to attract men and persuade them to buy the products being advertised. This qualitative study examines how linguistic and non-linguistic elements were employed in English …
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Gender Bias in the Evaluation of Application Letters: The Interplay of Gender Stereotypicality, Argument Structure, and Linguistic Features
Starting from the current European situation, the labor market still seems to be characterized by the unbalanced percentage of women and men in different job sectors. Social psychological literature has addressed this gap in terms of several factors, especially gender stereotypes. To examine which …
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The Southern Accent and "Bad English": A Comparative Perceptual Study of the Conceptual Network between Southern Linguistic Features and Identity
… Southern American English is linked to specific linguistic features, both phonetic and grammatical, in addition to how these features are interpreted differently by two different groups, one Southern and one non-Southern. Using interview-based methodology, I produce a holistic conceptual …
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Plano de texto e orientação argumentativa: acusação e defesa no impeachment de Dilma Rousseff
… out in the text plans; and what functions linguistic features of the argumentation may exert in the text plans. This study, thus, aims to analyze how, linguistically, the relation between the text plans and the argumentative orientation is established; and, more specifically, describes how …
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Structural characteristics of electronic discourse : a comparative analysis of InterChange text
… patterns emerged in the analysis of Interchange features, with which the underlying discourse mechanism of Interchange was interpreted. The linguistic features in Pattern I occur with higher frequency than in written discourse, but lower than in spoken. It was posited that this occurrence pattern …
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Transformer-based models for answer extraction in text-based question/answering
… performance, in QA, through the incorporation of linguistic features remains unexplored. In this study, we compare the efficacy of multiple transformer-based models for the task of QA, as well as their performance on particular question types. Moreover, we investigate whether augmenting a set of …
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A Macroscopic Re-examination of Language and Gender: A Corpus-Based Case Study in University Instructor Discourses
… of other non-gender factors and limited linguistic features investigated. To counter these limitations and re-examine the relationship between language and gender, this study used a corpus of instructor discourses to quantitatively compare 87 general linguistic features employed by male …
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Language and identity in the Cockney Diaspora: A sociophonetic and variationist study
… change and the social meaning of phonetic features in the context of ongoing linguistic and social change in South East England as related to the Cockney Diaspora. This term refers to the large-scale 20th century relocation of white, working-class East Londoners to Essex. Linguistic …
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Analysis of newspaper editorials: A study of argumentative text structure
… narrative on the basis of their structural and linguistic features. This study explores the notion of the text type labeled argumentative. Previous studies have attempted to characterize argumentative texts on the basis of configurations of linguistic features (Biber 1988, Werlich, 1976), speech …
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Primary trainee teachers’ talk with primary school science coordinators: Two case studies of primary trainees learning to teach science
… on science coordinators’ responsibilities, talk features and mentoring literature, as well as my own background as a science teacher and teacher educator informed and framed the study. A collective instrumental case study provided a methodological context for gathering qualitative data from …
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Towards the development and validation of an isiXhosa tool for the assessment of apraxia speech in adults: A descriptive study
South Africa is a culturally and linguistically diverse country. Serving isiXhosa speakers is a challenge for many Speech-Language Pathologists as there is a lack of appropriate assessment tools for this population. Current methods of adapting existing English tools are not appropriate as this does …
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Forms of address in Jordanian Arabic with some additional references to speech fellowships
… concerned with the investigation, within a socio-linguistic framework, of linguistic forms of address regularly observed in Jordanian Speech, having regard particularly to the status and role-relations of interlocutors. The linguistic characteristics of such relations are stated in lexical, …
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"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
… work shows that using poetry as evidence for linguistic structure is justified by an appropriate understanding of the metrical structure and of its interaction with the poetic language. Also, Beowulf, along with other Old English poems, provides evidence for stress and archaic linguistic …
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The Jewish Arabic Dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia): Phonology, Morphology, Syntax
The thesis presents a linguistic study of the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Gabes (Southern Tunisia). This variety belongs to the group of sedentary North-African dialects and nowadays is spoken by a limited number of native speakers in Israel and France. As with virtually all modern …
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Autoentity: automated entity detection from massive text corpora
… rely on human annotated data and hand-crafted linguistic features, which makes it hard to apply the model to an emerging domain. In this paper, we propose a novel automated entity detection framework, called AutoEntity, that performs automated phrase mining to create entity mention candidates …
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Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text
… causal relations can be encoded using various linguistic constructions. Each construction with its own semantics can pose various challenges for the problem of identifying causality. In this thesis, we address the tasks of identifying causality between two verbs and a verb and a noun by deeply …
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