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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Word use"”.
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Word Use and Placement Associating Arabs and Arab-Americans with Terrorism in the American Media
… has become possible for a few carefully chosen words within the media to trigger racially-driven prejudices and actions by agencies, institutions, and the public. Our language seems to be powerful enough to let a single phrase spin a news story into a national warning against a certain group. In …
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When friends fight: Relationships between language use, friendship quality, and gender when recalling interpersonal conflict
… quality. The literature reveals that language use, such as the use of pronouns or emotion words, can provide critical insight into our thoughts and feelings (Biessen, Schooler, & Smith, 2016; Fitzsimmons & Kay, 2004; Frost, 2013; Gilbert & Karahalios, 2009). Gender has also been shown to …
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Effects of three early literacy interventions in the preschool classroom: comparing phonological awareness training, dialogic reading, and a combination condition in small groups
… measures of letter naming, initial sound, and word use prior to and following the investigation along with two progress monitoring assessment sessions equally spaced during the study. Results offered evidence to support significant changes in early literacy skills over a short period of time as …
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The nature of teacher-child interactions in emotion discourse
… preschoolers’ emotional expression and emotion-word use in natural environments, group settings, and in the context of discourse, is limited in scope. Although research related to teacher-child relationships is prolific, specific research examining the nature of their interactions, most …
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Word Counts in Response to Cognitively Demanding Essay Prompts as Reflections of General Cognitive Ability and Broad Cognitive Abilities
<p>Natural language processing techniques can be used to analyze text and speech data. These techniques have been applied within many domains to date but have only recently been examined in the domain of personnel assessment. By linking workplace-relevant constructs such as general cognitive …
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Perceived Similarity Between Complex Sounds: The Contribution Of Acoustic, Descriptive And Categorical Features
… A range of descriptive data (including word pair and imagery/word use) was collected alongside acoustic measures for the sound stimuli employed. The sounds employed were initially all abstract in nature but environmental sounds were included in later experiments. A painwise comparison …
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The relationship between visuospatial perception networks and visual confrontation naming in aphasia
… a commonly employed language assessment strategy used in evaluating aphasia in research and clinical settings. Naming problems are a hallmark of aphasia disorders commonly attributed to a variety of phonological properties, such as word class, syllable properties, or frequency of target word use, …
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Three explanations for the link between language style matching and liking
… person’s language style is defined by his or her use of function words (e.g., pronouns, articles), a class of short, commonly used words that make up the grammatical structure of language. The language style matching (LSM) metric indexes the degree of similarity between two individual’s patterns …
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The birth of a word
… their entry into language, from first productive word use around 12 months of age to the emergence of combinatorial speech in their second year. What is the nature of early language development and how is it shaped by everyday experience? This work builds from the ground up to study early word …
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Hot Stocks and Cold Comfort: A Comparative Study of Optimism in Financial News and Household Participation in Equity Markets in the U.S., France, and Hong Kong, 1985-2008
I use computer-assisted textual content analysis to detect systematic reporting bias in financial news articles from 1985-2008 in the U.S., France, and Hong Kong in order to discern whether such biases contribute to country-level differences in household participation in equity markets. Today about …
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Percieved linguistic and communicative competence of bi/multilingual autistic children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… of children with ASD. The study specifically focused on the nature of socio-communication traits of children with autism in KwaZulu-Natal and sought to identify ways to enhance their linguistic and communicative skills. The main research questions of the study include: (i) What are caregivers’ …
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You and I—pronoun use and communication patterns in anxious couples
… and couple communication, anxiety and pronoun use as well as pronoun use and communication. The current study investigated the association between pronoun use and communication in the context of anxiety. One hundred and fifteen couples rated their communication with their partner and …