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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"language similarity"”.
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The Influence of Age, Experience and Native -Language Phonology on Second-Language Speech Perception and Production
Next, to test the claim that judgments of cross-language similarity predict L2 perception/production abilities for children and adults alike, in Experiments 2 and 3 both the beginning and advanced Korean-English bilinguals performed English vowel discrimination and production tasks. Results …
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Using Big Data Analytics to Optimize Practical Large Databases
… world database. Our methodology involves natural language processing. Our key goal is to study appropriate methods with big data analysis techniques that can handle errors, ambiguity, and repeated descriptions caused by human languages. In this study, we did a simple language similarity checking …
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Individual Variables in Context: A Longitudinal Study of Child and Adolescent English Language Learners
… in the United States are identified as English language learners (ELLs), whose academic success is tied to their second language (L2) English education. Previous research in adult populations indicates that L2 proficiency is related to the contextual variable of the prevalence of one’s first …
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Essays in political economy of media and communication
… party lines, we use a text-based measure of language similarity to proxy for the similarity of beliefs between any two politicians. Using this measure, we find an in-coalition effect: language similarity is greater for two politicians that share the same political coalition (government …
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Essays in development and political economy
… party lines, we use a text-based measure of language similarity to proxy for the similarity of beliefs between any two politicians. Using this measure, we find an in-coalition effect: language similarity is greater for two politicians that share the same political coalition (government …
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FDI Determinants and the effect of FDI on Economic Growth of the East African Community (EAC)
… on beta and sigma convergence. Unsparingly, when language similarity is accounted for in our study, the result shows that income levels between the EAC region and the UK significantly reduces. We argue that language similarity promote trade and investment, in addition to facilitating technology …
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Three explanations for the link between language style matching and liking
People who match each other’s language styles in dialogue tend to have more positive interactions. A 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 …
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Neural Encoding of Continuous Attended Speech in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners
Humans are capable of learning multiple languages without major difficulty, especially at an early age. While this brings obvious advantages such as intercultural communication and enhanced career prospects, bilingualism has also been linked to changes to selective attention and inhibition of …