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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"discourse context."”.
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Argument Realization in Thai
… subjects made pragmatic inferences based on the discourse context: inferring an omitted object allowed them to preserve discourse coherence. Hence, in addition to syntactic bootstrapping, discourse context may be used as another cue in acquiring verbs.
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Lexical differentiation in language production and comprehension
… that explore the breadth of the relevant discourse context in language production and comprehension. Previous evidence from language production suggests the relevant context is quite broad, based on findings that speakers differentiate new discourse referents from similar referents …
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Πνεῦμα in the Septuagint
… which considers both the source texts and discourse context of the Greek translation together as formative (to varying degrees) for word choice, and thereby also for the examination of word meaning. The primary focus is on instances of πνεῦμα as WIND, which especially involves the …
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
… the formal and functional properties of discourse deictics, morphemes which provide information to help interlocutors identify nominals, mark their discourse status, and highlight them for pragmatic purposes. Discourse deictics remain understudied, despite serving varied and complex …
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Acoustic cues for the perception of the information status of words in speech
… already given in, or inferable from the prior discourse context. If speakers signal discourse meaning in their speech, then listeners may use that information in comprehending utterance meaning. This dissertation includes four studies that investigate the perception of four different categories …
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CONTEXT EFFECTS IN THE COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
… familiar proverbs following either a figurative discourse context or one of two literal contexts. Materials from Ferretti, Schwint and Katz (2007) were adapted for a cloze task. Data were collected for 42 proverbs from 240 participants. Booklets presented a series of context paragraphs each …
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Social housing as heritage : case study : Langa hostels : whose values and what significance?
… a broader socio-political, cultural and heritage discourse context that this research project explores what the residents of Langa find significant. This is done with particular reference to the migrant labour hostel schemes since the intention was to establish to what extent conservation and …
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Contextual effects of varying amounts of language-mixed text on translation and comprehension by monolinguals and bilinguals
The present study examined the effects of discourse context information on English Monolinguals' and Spanish-English Bilinguals' ability to 1) translate Spanish and Finnish vocabulary words and 2) comprehend inferential and factual comprehension questions based on language-mixed prose. …
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Focus and discourse stress
… stress, sentence stress, or more precisely, discourse stress, which is typically understood to mark new information or contrasts in sentences. Learners may have difficulties communicating in English if they fail to perceive or express the main point of utterances by means of stress. Previous …
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Avatar augmented online conversation
… in terms of its communicative function based on discourse context, and how behaviors, shown to support those same functions in face-to-face conversation, can then be automatically performed by a graphical avatar in synchrony with the message delivery. An architecture, Spark, built on this …
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Investigating The Necessary Components of a Sarcastic Context
This research is designed to investigate the contextual components utilized to convey sarcastic verbal irony, testing whether theoretical components deemed as necessary for creating a sense of irony are, in fact, necessary. A novel task was employed: Given a set of statements that out-of-context …
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The structure of attitude reports : representing context in grammar
… of grammar that encodes certain facts about the discourse context in the narrow syntax. In particular, the recurring claim that there are clause peripheral elements that correspond to a kind of perspectival center is supported by novel evidence that this perspectival element can be overt in …
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"It's just part of what we do": Adolescent interactions with multimodal texts across social spaces
… a range of social, academic, print, and digital contexts. The intent of the study is to help articulate the boundedness and fluidity of multiple discourses, and to better clarify how teens maneuver across these boundaries successfully. My research approach incorporates ethnographic methodology …
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An exploration of the lived experiences of parents whose children have been permanently excluded from school
… these within the broader SE policy and discourse context. Integrative methodological framework: By introducing the Stratified Integrative Prism (SIP) conceptual framework, this study integrates critical realist and phenomenological theories to achieve ontological, methodological, and …
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The processing and production of prosodic focus in French by native and non-native speakers
… focus in French and what it entails at the discourse level, both in speech processing and in speech production. Prosodic focus has similar discourse entailments in both French and English. However, French and English differ in both the extent to which focus is expressed only phonologically …
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Prosodic prominence in English
… is associated with meaning of a word in discourse context. Prominent words are usually new or contrastive information, while nonprominent words are given or noncontrastive information. This dissertation addresses English prominence in two separate studies. The first study investigates the …
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Syntactic and Referential Ambiguity Resolution Under Cue Competition in Silent Reading: Effects of Implicit Prosodic Cues, L1-L2 and Individual Differences
… semantics, verb subcategorisation frequencies, discourse context), little is known about how formal features of text that introduce implicit prosodic regularities influence decisions about syntactic-prosodic analysis and reference interpretation. These features were manipulated in globally and …
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Diskurz sociální sítě se zaměřením na virtuální komunitu Facebook
Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community - Abstract Rigorous thesis "Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community" endeavours to study the social network discourse on its contextual level. When using various perspectives, the concrete analysis of such disourse …