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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"vocabulary size"”.
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Attentional Orientation and Vocabulary Size
… and disambiguation is associated with superior vocabulary ability (Bion et al., 2013; Fernald et al., 2006). Yet, existing research on attentional orientation during word learning is limited. The present study examined whether the speed of attentional orientation during novel word learning is …
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The effects of recognition accuracy and vocabulary size of a speech recognition system on task performance and user acceptance
… level at which it recognizes speech, and the vocabulary size of the recognizer as a percent of task vocabulary size to determine their effects on system performance. In addition, the study considered one characteristic of the user, age. Briefly, subjects performed a data entry task under each …
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Relating Infants' Social Engagement Profiles to Individual Differences in Language Outcomes
… 18-20 months, caregivers reported on language (vocabulary size) and autistic symptomatology (developmental screening measures). Overall, the results indicated that measures of social attention predict later language outcomes. In particular, joint attention accounted for 13% of the variance in …
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Cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in first and second language reading comprehension
… 1), the effect of L2 language proficiency and vocabulary size on the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies in ESL reading (study 2), and the effect of cognitive and metacognitive strategy use on ESL RC (study 3), respectively. To explore cognitive and metacognitive strategy use on first …
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The Effect of Hearing Impairment on Word Processing of Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech
… patterns for familiar versus novel words, and 3) vocabulary size would be correlated with word processing skills.</p> <p>Methods. Eleven children with bilateral, sensorineural hearing loss (M=32.48 months) using hearing aids or cochlear implants, and 11 CNH, matched for age, gender, and SES …
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Vocabulary Testing and the Influence of Second Language on Third Language Vocabulary Acquisition
… reporting two empirical studies drawing on a vocabulary testing perspective. The studies investigate the impact of prior lexical knowledge on additional language learning of Hungarian native speakers, who speak Romanian as an L2 and English as an L3. From a theoretical standpoint, the studies …
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Development of Reading Fluency During an Extensive Reading Course Incorporating Reading Fluency Tasks
… reading comprehension, and written receptive vocabulary size were measured at the beginning and end of both semesters. Silent reading rate, oral reading rate, oral reading fluency, and reading comprehension were measured using both simplified and authentic texts. Approximately half of the …
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The EIIOS Task: Executive Function and Word Learning at 18-months
… task as well as a parent report measure of vocabulary size (MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences Version). Contrary to expectations, very few statistically significant associations were found between the EF measure and either language measure. Despite …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
… often-discussed benefits is the potential for vocabulary learning through songs; however, few researchers have examined whether songs are a suitable source of input for vocabulary learning for English language learners. To address this need, this corpus-driven study investigated the vocabulary …
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Early Speech and Language Development: A Comparison of Typically Developing Children to Children with Cleft Palate.
… typically developing children, matched for vocabulary size. This study also evaluated the language differences between the mothers of both groups of children. Speech and language assessments were administered to the typically developing children and their mothers at two times to mirror the …
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What not to swear: how do children learn bad words?
… Participants also completed the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) as a measure of receptive vocabulary. Results revealed both older and younger children learn taboo words, but only younger children did so at rate greater than object words. Additionally, taboo words were the only word type …
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Data Augmentation with Seq2Seq Models
… in a significantly expanded training dataset and vocabulary size, but has slightly worse performance when tested on the validation split. Although not as fruitful as we had hoped, our work highlights additional avenues for investigation into selecting more optimal model parameters and the …
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The role of cognitive factors on the development and evolution of the vocabulary
… differently at various stages of an individual’s vocabulary development, or indeed how they may operate differently as the vocabulary subsequently evolves. Through a series of experimental studies, this thesis will examine how well documented psycholinguistic properties of words can shape the …
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Airijos lietuvių gimtosios kalbos atricijos požymiai žodyne /
… impact on those changes. Research material – L1 vocabulary of the Irish Lithuanians. The paper describes the L1 vocabulary size of the Irish Lithuanians and the factors that determine it, examines the lexical accessibility by observing hesitation markers, and discusses lexical retrieval. …
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Signs of lexical attrition in the L1 of Lithuanians in Ireland /
… impact on those changes. Research material – L1 vocabulary of the Irish Lithuanians. The paper describes the L1 vocabulary size of the Irish Lithuanians and the factors that determine it, examines the lexical accessibility by observing hesitation markers, and discusses lexical retrieval. …
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Comparing the Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Intermediate-level Students of Different Native languages in an Intensive English Program
… test that does not involve any form of explicit vocabulary testing, some degree of variation in lexical knowledge of students within an individual class should not be surprising. However, very little research has ever quantified this variation. The current study fills the gap in this important …
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A yes/no vocabulary test in a university placement setting
Receptive vocabulary knowledge appears to reflect broader receptive L1 and L2 language skills such as reading and listening comprehension. The Yes/No vocabulary test, developed to provide a quick estimate of total receptive vocabulary size, requires subjects to check off known words, leaving …
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Uniformity of pronoun case errors in typical development: the association between children's first person and third person case errors in a longitudinal study
… test the predictive value of first person error, vocabulary size, and finiteness development on third person pronoun case error. Most children treated case uniformly in the first and third persons, producing both first and third person pronoun case errors or producing no case errors at all, …
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Disabled person's control, communication and entertainment aid: an investigation of the feasibility of using speech control and natural language understanding to control a manipulator and a software application and development environment
… the speech control hardware, such as restricted vocabulary size and artificial manner of speaking are partially overcome by software extensions to the operating system and the application of natural language understanding techniques. The application of voice control and audio response to common …
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Early Language Learning and Teaching of Toddlers from Mexican Immigrant Homes
… also used in most homes. Children’s productive vocabulary in both languages was further measured contemporaneously; total vocabulary size ranged widely across children. There were no associations revealed between the characteristics of children’s language input quantity and quality and their …
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