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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"word frequency"”.
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THE LATERALIZATION OF THE WORD FREQUENCY EFFECT
… to investigate the lateralization of the word frequency effect and the interaction with word class. Positive results would support proposals of multiple lexicons in lexical retrieval models. The first was a small-n experiment varying visual angle of presentation, signal to noise ratios, …
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A word frequency study and glossary of terms peculiar to Gregg shorthand teaching methodology
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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THE EFFECTS OF WORD LENGTH, WORD FREQUENCY AND WORD REPETITION IN AUDITORY MEMORY (LEXICON, VERBAL ABILITY, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS)
… experiments were run to assess the effects of word frequency, word length, and word repetition. Experiment I examined the effects of word length, word frequency, and stimulus repetition on RT. The results demonstrated a significant main effect for length and frequency and a significant length …
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An analytical study of word frequency for pedagogical purposes based on a corpus derived from the business news sections of locally published English language newspapers in Taiwan
… comprehension. For this study, a 1.23 million-word Taiwanese Business News Corpus (TBNC) was created by collecting business news articles from English language newspapers published in Taiwan. This corpus was used to investigate the word frequency of business news genre. Based on the word …
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Misheard Me Oronyminator: Using Oronyms to Validate the Correctness of Frequency Dictionaries
… identical-sounding phrases are called oronyms. Word frequency dictionaries are often used by speech recognition systems to help resolve phonetic sequences with more than one possible orthographic phrase interpretation, by looking up which oronym of the root phonetic sequence contains the …
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A Comparison of Statistical Filtering Methods for Automatic Term Extraction for Domain Analysis
Fourteen word frequency metrics were tested to evaluate their effectiveness in identifying vocabulary in a domain. Fifteen domain engineering projects were examined to measure how closely the vocabularies selected by the fourteen word frequency metrics were to the vocabularies produced by domain …
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A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging
… resource, spelling variants are retrieved using word-frequency lists and categorised according to form and function. Secondly, identification of everyday creativity in CorTxt challenges studies focusing solely on spelling as a creative resource, and suggests that creativity plays an important …
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Cross-regional word duration patterns in Mandarin
… of information, including language background, word structure, word frequency, speech genre, intention, and emotions. An understanding of duration lays the foundation for many aspects of speech technology since duration plays a major role in speech production and perception. This dissertation …
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An experimental analysis of braille reading using a high-resolution tracking system
… to lexical properties of the text (e.g., word frequency, lexical structure, orthographic uniqueness point) and demonstrated sensitivity to topdown context effects during reading. The final experiment provided suggestive evidence that the auditory cortex may be involved in skilled braille …
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Factors Affecting Pretonic Deletion in English Syllables: A Corpus Study
… an onset cluster, V --> φ / C__C, such as the word <em>Columbus</em> reduced to the two-syllable pronunciation [klʌmbəs], resulting in the onset cluster [kl]. The main question asks what predictors are associated with pretonic vowel deletion. Furthermore, we evaluate the Lexicalist Hypothesis …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
… necessary to reach 95% and 98% coverage of the words in songs. The songs in the corpus were divided into two varieties of English—American and British, six decades—1950s to 2000s, and four genres—Urban Roots, Formative Rock, Progressive Rock, and Mainstream Listening. An analysis was first …
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Affirmative action and Bolsa Família in Brazil
… but disproportionately benefit AfroBrazilians. A word frequency analysis of newspaper articles is conducted to examine the media’s framing of affirmative action and Bolsa Família. The investigation demonstrates that affirmative action is framed racially and Bolsa Família is discussed from a …
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Humanizing Computational Literature Analysis Through Art-Based Visualizations
… First, it contributes a sentiment and word frequency analysis task focused on gender-specific nouns and pronouns in 15,000 fictional works taken from the online library, Project Gutenberg. This analysis allows for both quantifying and offering further insight on the nature of this …
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Pilot study of WrAP: A video-cued writing program with a computerized assessment component used to enhance the writing skills of students
… of the program, 93% displayed some increase in word frequency and fluency. However, the assessment portion of the program did not perform as expected.
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Changing car culture: a case study at Binghamton University
… was conducted using NVivo to run coding and word frequency queries. These results showed trends in student behavioral intentions, providing the understanding needed to promote initiatives to instigate car culture change and potentially reduce the parking problem.</p>
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The "where" and "when" of eye fixations in reading
… related to the eyes’ landing position within words, (1) the optimal viewing position (OVP), (2) the preferred viewing location (PVL), and (3) the Fixation-Duration Inverted-Optimal Viewing Position (IOVP) Effect. Based on a corpus-analytical approach (Exp. 1), the influence of variables word …
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An eye tracking study of sentence reading in aphasia: influences of frequency and context
… language. Two of these sources of influence, frequency and context, demonstrate that more probable words and structures are processed more quickly than those that are less probable. However, not much is known about probabilistic influences on the reading of people with aphasia at the sentence …
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Categories of Mystical Experience in The Voice of the Silence by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
… in the data. The qualitative approach used word frequency counters and NVIVO analysis software to identify five primary themes: Way, Soul, Self, Light, and Heart. These themes were then thoroughly examined through a detailed analysis of the raw data, revealing instances where they were …
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