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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"usage-based"”.
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Figuration & Frequency: A Usage-Based Approach to Metaphor
… in the mind as conceptual schemata. Two corpus-based methods for assessing the frequency of overall metaphorical mappings are presented, both based on the use of key terms, attained using a survey method, for metaphorical source domains. These findings inform the hypotheses of a series of three …
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Germanic future constructions: A usage-based approach to grammaticalization
… whose meanings persist to some degree in modern usage. Future constructions thus convey not only future time reference, but also modal meanings of volition, obligation, or possibility. This multifunctionality has been a challenge for previous accounts that aimed to delimit their function to …
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Investigating focus constructions in an EFL context : a usage-based approach
… a Construction Grammar framework and following a usage-based approach to SLA, the present study investigated Saudi advanced L2 users’ knowledge of focus constructions in English (namely it-cleft, wh-cleft, reverse wh-cleft and preposing). Little is known about the acquisition of these …
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Accessing Information on the World Wide Web: Predicting Usage Based on Involvement
… fewer pages visited. An additional indicator of usage, the average amount of time spent on each page, was measured and revealed that more involved users spent more time on each page.
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"Hey, y'guys!": A diachronic usage-based approach to changes in American English address
<p>This dissertation adopts a functional, usage-based perspective on language to highlight key changes in American English address over the past century, especially the development of 'you guys' and its expansion across second-person plural contexts. Based on data from the Corpus of Historical …
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ClickTrails: Enhancing Web Navigation with Usage-Based Stylization of Clicked Web Page Elements
… where clicking on elements causes them to fade. Based on the mode they select, a user’s web page interactions can either become more or less conspicuous, allowing them to choose the mode that aligns with their specific goals for each website. Our user evaluation indicates that ClickTrails helps …
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Usage based market method to support socio-economic equity among distributed energy resource owners
Over the past few decades, interest in Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) has increased due to their various environmental and economic benefits. Recent interest in energy justice and equity has paved the way for DERs to positively impact society, particularly with respect to socio-economic …
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Usage-based Analysis of Schematic and Multifunctional Verb Argument Constructions in Three Contrasting Corpora: A Native Chinese Corpus, a CFL Textbook Corpus and a Chinese Learner Corpus
… to a growing body of evidence that supports the usage-based construction grammar approach to language learning. This approach suggests that language development is strongly influenced by statistical regularities in learners’ input, including the frequency, dispersion, and contingency of …
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Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition
… on L2 proficiency. Finally, according to usage-based accounts of language, there is no qualitative difference between mono- and bilingual speakers, and a bilingual's performance under L2 conditions is best viewed in terms of their ongoing engagement with L2. </p> <p>To investigate how much …
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CALaMo: a Construsctionist perspective on the Analysis of linguistic behaviour of Language Models
… framework in which NLMs are tested seems largely based on Generative Grammar and nativist principles, and a shared constructionist approach on the matter has not yet emerged: this is at odds with the fact that usage-based theories are actually better suited to inspect the behaviour of such models. …
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Quantitative determinants of prefabs: A corpus-based, experimental study of multiword units in the lexicon
… multiword units, or 'prefabs' (Bolinger 1976). A usage-based perspective predicts that linguistic units, including prefabs, arise via repeated use, and prefabs should thus be associated with the frequency with which words co-occur (Langacker 1987). Indeed, in several recent experiments, corpus …
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Stabilization of Idiosyncratic Fixed Expressions in the Wild
… idiosyncratic FEs are evidence of rule-based productivity, thus challenging usage-based perspectives on FEs (Bardovi-Harlig & Stringer, 2016; Wray, 2002). While a few studies have documented the stabilization of idiosyncratic FEs from usage-based perspectives (Eskildsen, 2012; Hauser, …
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Uncertainty management in prognosis of electric vehicle energy system
… distribution bounds under long-term and usage-based prognosis for accurate and precise results. Uncertainty is an inherent attribute of prognostic technologies, in which we estimate the End-Of-Life (EOL) and Remaining-Useful-Life (RUL) of a failing component or system, with the time …
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Grammar and *Interaction: Syntactic Pivots in German Conversation
… of spoken language and view grammar as usage-based and negotiable.
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VERBS OF SPEECH AND COGNITION: STRUCTURAL PATTERNS IN NEW MEXICAN SPANISH
From a usage-based approach, this dissertation explores the relationship between structural variability and discourse subjectivity in a series of interviews from the New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish Survey (Bills and Vigil 2008). Focusing on the use of cognitive and speech verbs, the …
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Epäilemisen merkitys : Epäillä-sanueen polaarinen kaksihahmotteisuus kiellon ja kielteisyyden semantiikan peilinä
… the analysis of the nouns. The study draws on a usage-based theoretical framework and utilizes the ideas of meaning construal developed in Cognitive Linguistics. Following the methodological interpretation of the usage-based model, the analysis is based on corpus data. The examination of the verb …
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Forecasting demand for district heating using different forecasting methods
… model, or ARIMA, predicted the general average usage based on previous data and was used as a benchmark for other models. Another regression model was created, LOWESS or Locally Weighted Scatter-plot Smoothing. LOWESS offers a non-linear correlation by giving more weight to values closer to the …
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The Acquisition of Negation in Najdi Arabic
… for the early production of negative markers as usage based studies suggest (Cameron-Faulkner, Lieven, & Theakston 2007).
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Pricing and licensing of software products and services : a study on industry trends
… from the enterprise application segment. A usage-based licensing model is gaining popularity but perpetual licensing continues to be the preferred one. Software firms sell a lot of products early on and fail to keep up the same rate of new sales to new customers. From the regression model, …
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