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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"linguistic complexity"”.
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Linguistic complexity and the relationship to student achievement
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Assessing Linguistic, Mathematical, and Visual Factors Related to Student Performance on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, Eighth Grade Mathematics Test.
… grade math test identified the prevalence of linguistic complexity, mathematical rigor, and visual presentation factors and explored their relationship to student success on individual test items. Variables to be studied were identified through a review of literature in the area of reading …
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Effects of Scriptedness on Children's Generation of Expository Narratives
… child. Language was transcribed and measures of linguistic complexity and accuracy were calculated. There was a significant main effect for scriptedness in all age groups. Some performance measures too included the occurance of mazes, type-token ratio, and pronoun use, reflected developmental …
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The relationships among alternative measures of reading comprehension in learning disabled students
… methodology in view of the cognitive and linguistic complexity of the behavior being evaluated. Relationships among multiple measures have been observed, but no study has examined the nature of relationships among categories of comprehension assessment (product-process) or has conducted an …
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A Perceptual, Acoustic-Phonetic, and Linguistic Analysis of Cluttering
… were subjected to the sane analyses. A linguistic analysis was conducted on all utterances considered to be cluttered and not cluttered in order to determine a possible influence of linguistic complexity on the fluency of this subject. The results of the analyses revealed a relatively …
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Linguistic Variation in MS 1751 Judaeo-Arabic Medical Manuscript of the Matenadaran Collection
The thesis provides a comprehensive study of the linguistic features within the MS 1751 Judaeo-Arabic medical manuscript from the Matenadaran Collection, contextualized by comparing it to its Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, and Garshuni variants. Detailed analyses underscore the linguistic complexity and …
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Teachers' Beliefs About Students With English as an Additional Language and Co-Existing Disability Participation in State Academic Achievement Tests
… similar beliefs about the mismatch between the linguistic complexity of the tests and their expectations of students’ abilities. Moreover, input from English language teachers concerning students’ academic English language proficiency was often not included in a student’s special education …
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Improving the Accessibility of Arabic Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) with Metadata and Classification
… Arabic ETDs. The second is the Arabic language’s linguistic complexity, especially in academic documents. This research presents the Otrouha project, which aims at building a corpus of key metadata of Arabic ETDs as well as providing a methodology for their automatic subject classification. The …
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Cognitive Control across domains: integrating language, pain perception and clinical applications.
… control is a core mechanism supporting both linguistic and sensory processing. Different aspects of cognitive control, such as working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility, are shown to be essential for managing linguistic complexity and adapting to dynamic sensory inputs. Using …
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Representation of Women In 19Th Century Popular Art and Literature: Forget Me Not and La Revista Moderna
<p>Sentences offer a useful level of linguistic complexity for both the teaching and study of speechreading. In this study we measured the effect of providing orthographic cues to the content of the Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) Sentences. Three experimental topics were addressed. In each …
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The Effects Of Orthographic Cueing On The Speechreadability Of Sentences
<p> Sentences offer a useful level of linguistic complexity for both the teaching and study of speechreading. In this study we measured the effect of providing orthographic cues to the content of the Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) Sentences. Three experimental topics were addressed. In each …
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The ‘Telling Stories’ Project: A case series study of narrative interaction between children who use speech generating devices and their educational staff
… were investigated: communicative modality, linguistic move-type and linguistic complexity. A subsidiary study was completed to test the reliability of Momentary Time Sampling in coding interactional data. The findings revealed multimodal contributions from both interlocutors. Speech was the …
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Child witnesses in Scottish criminal courts
… techniques (question type [Chapter 1], linguistic complexity [Chapter 2], question repetition [Chapter 3], and question content [Chapter 4]), 2) how these parameters affected children’s responses (including an in-depth analysis of children’s propensity to express uncertainty [Chapter …
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Development of English as a Second Language in the Context of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
… that examined the trend of changes in the linguistic complexity of the NNESs‘ spoken discourse during a 5-month period of gameplay. This examination involved repeated (in three equally-distributed time intervals) calculations of fourteen syntactic complexity indices and the indices …
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Cortical Tracking of Syntax in Post-Stroke Aphasia: An EEG Investigation of Disrupted Sentence Comprehension
… we aimed to identify which cognitive-linguistic mechanisms best explain the patterns of impaired sentence comprehension presented by individuals with receptive agrammatism.</p> <p>Methods. Nine individuals with post-stroke aphasia and nine age- and education-matched neurologically …
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Cognition and Gender Diversity in Top Management Teams - A Comprehensive Analysis of Top Management Team Communication and Linguistic Patterns
… attention is given to women's impact on STMC linguistics – even though other research streams indicate that women communicate differently in certain situations. TMT communication styles reflect cognitive frameworks and power dynamics within executive suites. This empirical study investigates …
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Not the Pearls but the Thread: Using fNIRS Hyperscanning to Investigate Real-Life Social Interactions
… Chapter 3 presents studies investigating how the linguistic features and emotional content of dialogues are associated with, and supported by, patterns of prefrontal interpersonal synchrony and within-brain functional connectivity. Chapter 4 reports a large-scale hyperscanning study involving 284 …
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AI-powered Data Mining for the Development of Sustainable Concrete Materials
… instructions is developed. With the multifaceted linguistic complexity of communication within the domain rendering it infeasible to adopt the conventional named-entity-recognition approach, the new method successfully achieves great information inference accuracy in a time-, cost-, and …
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Student negotiation of an undergraduate accounting assessment
… of the dominant disciplinary practices is its linguistic complexity, largely shaped by professional accounting institutions. To investigate students' literacy practices, the answer texts of three students from different backgrounds are analysed using CDA, together with ethnographic data from …
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The Complexity of Pronominal Address in Spanish: The Case of Hispanic Communities in Philadelphia and Their Linguistic Landscape
… the use of Pronouns of Address (PoA), in the linguistic landscape and oral communication within Hispanic communities in Philadelphia. Based on the hypothesis that language is a complex, dynamic, and adaptive system, this study analyzes how a diasporic context adds an additional layer to the …
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