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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"function words"”.

  1. Prosodic and Syntactic Factors in the Phonetic Realization of Function Words in American English

    Oh, Young-IlUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Function (i.e., grammatical) words very frequently lack word-level stress and display phonetic reduction relative to content (i.e., lexical) words. However, word-class (function vs. content) may not be the only factor that affects phonetic realization of function words; prosodic and syntactic …

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  2. How Should Context-Dependent Words Be Taught to Beginning Readers?

    Turner, Abigail M.The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2020

    … for teaching beginners to read context-dependent words. Two types of context-dependent words were taught: irregular past tense verbs and function words. The words were embedded either in scrambled contexts or in meaningful sentence contexts. Three different instructional conditions to teach the …

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  3. The Effect of Orthographic Mapping, Context, and Word Class on Sight Word Learning for Native and Nonnative English-Speakers

    Miles, Katharine PaceThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2001

    … and language skills predict the reading of words presented in isolation. Native (n = 40) and nonnative (n = 41) English-speaking kindergarten students' were randomly assigned to either the orthographic mapping or control condition prior to flashcard word reading. Students in the orthographic …

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  4. Latent Compositional Representations for English Function Word Comprehension

    Barnes, Megan2022

    … performance on tasks that require the use of function words. The method used treats tree-structure as latent and thus requires no gold parse labels. Results show that across four function-word-focused NLI probing tasks, tree-compositional models perform as well as LSTMs, but lag behind BERT to …

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  5. Examining the impact of homework-based instruction on EFL learners' ability to predict English phrase rhythm

    Young, John Austin, Jr.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2003

    … of English through the identification of content words and loud function words versus soft function words. Through multiple administrations of a phrase-rhythm test to two groups of first-year, first-semester freshmen at a Japanese university, insights were gained regarding the effectiveness of …

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  6. Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster

    Pham, Phung Khanh2023

    … was multimethod, involving Q-methodology and function word analysis. I used purposive sampling to obtain two samples—one representing the context of evaluation ( n = 32) and another representing the context of emergency medicine ( n = 31). All research participants were professionals working …

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  7. Children's Responses to Grammatically Complete and Incomplete Prompts to Imitate

    Bredin-Oja, Shelley LaineUniversity of Kansas2012

    … their child's utterance by adding one or two words. This often results in a telegraphic utterance, one that is devoid of function words and inflectional endings. Other programs not only advocate the use of telegraphic models but explicitly prompt the child to produce a grammatically …

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  8. PHONOLOGICAL VARIATION IN JAKARTA INDONESIAN: AN EMERGING VARIETY OF INDONESIAN

    Kurniawan, Ferdinan OkkiCornell University2018

    … Two examines variants with final [-a] ~ [-e] in function words, such as in [apa] (SI) ~ [ape] (Betawi) ‘what’, Chapter Three investigates variants with final [Ø] ~ [-h] ~ [-ʔ] in function words, such as in [lagi] (SI) ~ [lagih] (Betawi) ~ [lagiʔ] (Betawi) ‘more/progressive’, in content words, …

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  9. The effects of self-monitoring strategy use on the pronunciation of learners of English

    Ingels, Sue A.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2011

    … intonation, vowel reduction in content and function words, linking, word stress, and multiword construction stress. Fifteen graduate-level learners of English (14 Mandarin speakers, 1 Korean speaker) from an intact English as a Second Language (ESL) pronunciation class at a Midwestern …

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  10. Sentence processing in Spanish as a second language: A study of context, background knowledge and word order

    Houston, Anthony DeanUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2011

    … utterance even though grammatical morphemes and function words indicate that the second noun is the subject (Bates and MacWhinney, 1984: Gass, 1989: Glisan, 1985: Heilenman & McDonald, 1992). English speakers learning Spanish mistake preverbal object pronouns for subjects (Lee, 1987; VanPatten, …

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  11. Identifying expression fingerprints using linguistic information

    Uzuner, Ozlem, 1975-Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005

    … over models that use tfidf-weighted keywords. The performance of models built with these features is also better than models created with standard features used in stylometry (e.g., function words), which yield an accuracy of 62%. In the non-digital world, copyright holders collect …

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  12. Native Speaker Stance-Taking In A Multinational Conference Call

    Revheim Cunha, Vanessa Cristina2019

    … careful articulation by analyzing the number of words used per minute. The qualitative analysis will explore lexical choices, stress on both content and function words, and stance-taking measures used towards native and nonnative participants. The objective of this study is to understand how …

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  13. Machine Learning And Natural Language Methods For Detecting Psychopathy In Textual Data

    Henning, Andrew Stephen2019

    … for statistically comparing the use of function words of psychopaths versus non-psychopaths. Second, I use a “bag of words” approach to investigate the effectiveness of unary-classification and binary-classification methods for determining whether text shows psychopathic indicators. …

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  14. Lexical and Sublexical Characteristics of Words Produced Disfluently by Adults Who Stutter

    Contini, Chelsea

    <p>The examination of stuttered words dates back over 70 years. While recent studies have examined the speech of children who stutter (CWS) (Anderson & Byrd, 2008) or small parts of speech of adults who stutter (AWS) (Au-Yeung, Howell, & Pilgrim, 1998, little is known about the words produced …

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  15. Exploring the emergence of an incipient English Pidgin in Kuwait: A continuum of bilingual behaviour

    Almuhanna, MaryamUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2018

    … as indications of the frequent use of Arabic function words, discourse particles more specifically, not only for pragmatic purposes, but also the pidgin users’ attempt to add structure to the utterances at hand. This study’s investigation of a Kuwait English pidgin consists of illustrations …

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  16. A New Edition Of The Worchester "soul's Address To The Body"

    Moffat, Douglas Alexander1982

    … with a glossary which, except for a handful of function words, contains a complete record for all the forms in the poem.

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  17. Three explanations for the link between language style matching and liking

    Ireland, Molly Elizabeth 1984-The University of Texas at Austin2011

    … 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 of …

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  18. Die Rolle von Konkordanzmarkierungen für die Segmentierung von Phrasen aus dem Sprachstrom : Untersuchungen bei Säuglingen und Erwachsenen

    Pelzer, LydiaUniversität Potsdam

    Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle von Konkordanzmarkierungen innerhalb einer Phrase für die Segmentierung eines fremden Sprachstroms. Das Merkmal der Konkordanz tritt auf, wenn alle Bestandteile einer Phrase gleichermaßen durch eine identische Markierung gekennzeichnet sind (z. B. los …

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  19. Characterizing Language Representations in the Human Mind and Brain

    Tuckute, GretaMassachusetts Institute of Technology2025

    … temporal areas are more important for language function. Chapters 3-5 aim to understand the representations and computations that mediate language comprehension. Traditionally, this line of inquiry has been challenging given the limited utility of probing animal models whose communication …

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  20. Early Lexical and Grammatical Development of Xitsonga Spoken in Giyani, Limpopo Using the Adapted Xitsonga MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers Form A Preliminary Study

    Ndhambi, MikatekoDepartment of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences2024

    … nouns made up the largest proportion of acquired words (322 items), followed by predicates (208 items) and function words (68 items). As for other languages, age has a significant effect (F[1,97] = 33.2; r = .51; p < .001) on children's grammatical development, accounting for 25.91% of the …

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