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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"bilingual lexicon"”.
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Data-Efficient Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Pretrained Language Models
Bilingual dictionaries are essential language resources that play a crucial role in the development of modern multilingual and cross-lingual natural language processing (NLP) systems, particularly for resource-lean languages. Although there are 7,000+ languages spoken worldwide, existing bilingual …
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Semantic mapping of the bilingual lexicon : form-to-meaning mapping through computerized testing
In this study, form-to-meaning mapping of the bilingual mental lexicon is investigated. Sixty native speakers of Arabic, divided into intermediate and advanced ESL groups, served as the participants of the study. They performed a semantic relatedness rating task of sixty high frequency semantically …
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Acquisition of metaphorical expressions by Chinese learners of English
… influence; and (2) the organisation of learners’ bilingual lexicon and the status of metaphorical expressions in a bilingual lexicon. These two perspectives are considered to be the main factors that can influence learners’ acquisition of metaphorical expressions: in order to acquire a …
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Lexical Representation and Processing in Second Language Learners
… of lexical representation, investigations of the bilingual lexicon have mainly focused on the relationship between the two languages. To explore whether the L2 learner develops an L2 lemma-level representation, the second experiment investigated whether L2 learners access a noun's gender …
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Phonological representation and processing in bilingual learners: investigating cross- language phonological activation and accuracy of phonological representation
… and consistency of phonological activation in bilinguals in a meta-analytic review (Study 2); (3) to examine whether and how Chinese ESL learners show fuzzy phonological representation in both auditory and visual word recognition tasks and the role of proficiency in moderating the accuracy …
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Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition
… popular notion of linguistic relativity (LR) to bilingual contexts, one would argue that a speaker's first language (L1) influences her thinking and behavior under second language (L2) conditions. According to one interpretation of LR, inter-language relativity, L1 instills in its speakers …
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Lexical-syntactic representations in bilingual sentence production
… can also be primed between both languages of a bilingual (Hartsuiker et al., 2004; Schoonbaert et al. 2007; Salamoura & Williams, 2007). Hartsuiker et al. (2004) therefore concluded that syntactic representations can be shared between languages in the bilingual lexicon. In this dissertation, we …