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GreekLex 2: A comprehensive lexical database with part-of-speech, syllabic, phonological, and stress information
2017
Databases containing lexical properties on any given orthography are crucial for psycholinguistic research. In the last ten years, a number of lexical databases have been developed for Greek. However, these lack important part-of-speech information. Furthermore, the need for alternative procedures for calculating syllabic measurements and stress information, as well as combination of several metrics to investigate linguistic properties of the Greek language are highlighted. To address these issues, we present a new extensive lexical database of Modern Greek (GreekLex 2) with part-of-speech information for each word and accurate syllabification and orthographic information predictive of stre…
Explicit Oral Narrative Intervention for Students with Williams Syndrome
2018
Narrative skills play a crucial role in organizing experience, facilitating social interaction and building academic discourse and literacy. They are at the interface of cognitive, social, and linguistic abilities related to school engagement. Despite their relative strengths in social and grammatical skills, students with Williams syndrome (WS) do not show parallel cognitive and pragmatic performance in narrative generation tasks. The aim of the present study was to assess retelling of a TV cartoon tale and the effect of an individualized explicit instruction of the narrative structure. Participants included eight students with WS who attended different special education levels. Narratives…
Within and between variations of texts elicited from nine wine experts
2006
Nine wine experts tasted in replicate six Chardonnay wines that had been aged in oak barrels from different forests and/or species. They freely gave their descriptions in writing; the only instruction given was to underline three words or expressions that best characterized each tasted wine. The texts were submitted to an objective lexical analysis that quantified the important variation among the experts. In addition a matching task was performed by 117 assessors in which each assessor received from each expert six white cards and six yellow cards representing the descriptions of the six white wines and six red wines. The assessors were incapable of matching the descriptions for the same e…
Skaistumkopšanas produktu reklāmas leksika
2017
Reklāma ir spēcīgs ierocis, kas tiek lietots, lai manipulētu ar cilvēku prātu un iespaidotu patērētāju rīcību. Šajā bakalaura darbā tiek pētīts matu un lūpu produktu reklāmās lietotais vārdu krājums un leksiskie izteiksmes līdzekļi. Pētījums apskata instrumentus, ar kādiem reklāmas pārliecina pircējus iegādāties konkrētus produktus. Darba mērķis ir analizēt un salīdzināt vārdu krājumu matu un lūpu produktu reklāmās, kā arī uzzināt, vai tajos ir atšķirības no valodniecības viedokļa. Pētījumā tika pielietota kvantitatīvā un kvalitatīvā pētījuma metode. Rezultāti liek secināt, ka matu un lūpu produktu reklāmās lietotā valoda ir līdzīga. Noteikti lietvārdi, īpašības vārdi un darbības vārdi tiek…
Entre la sintaxis y el discurso: el caso de 'a lo mejor' y 'al menos' en la conversación coloquial
2018
This paper studies the Spanish forms a lo mejor (maybe) and al menos (at least) from a modular perspective, revisiting the categorization of a lo major and al menos according to the involved linguistic level and analyzing the relations between the adverbial uses of these forms and the discursive ones. Such relations show that the forms a lo mejor and al menos can be considered bicategorial lexical items, what is implemented by a corpus study based on data from spoken language.
Reading changes in children and adolescents with dyslexia after transcranial direct current stimulation.
2016
Noninvasive brain stimulation offers the possibility to induce changes in cortical excitability and it is an interesting option as a remediation tool for the treatment of developmental disorders. This study aimed to investigate the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on reading and reading-related skills of children and adolescents with dyslexia. Nineteen children and adolescents with dyslexia performed different reading and reading-related tasks (word, nonword, and text reading; lexical decision; phonemic blending; verbal working memory; rapid automatized naming) in a baseline condition without tDCS and after 20 min of exposure to three different tDCS conditions: left …
Ambiguity and Contradiction From a Morpho-Syntactic Prototype Perspective
2008
In this paper, the contradiction and ambiguity problems in Natural language Processing are briefly introduced. We also present the morpho-syntactic WIH (Web Intelligent Handler) prototype and the overall approach it takes to process any Spanish text. Finally, we analyze how it processes Spanish sentences with contradictions or ambiguities using its own perspective, despite deeper linguistic considerations.
Kohēzija biznesa runās
2018
Šis bakalaura darbs pēta kohēzijas līmeni Maska un Mejas un Abes runās par komercdarbību. Darba mērķis ir izpētīt kohēzijas līdzekļu lietojumu runās par komercdarbību. Kā pētijuma metodes darbā izmantots literatūras apskats par dažādiem publicētajiem avotiem par leksisko un gramatisko kohēziju un biznesa diskursu, kā arī biežuma analīze. Leksiskās kohēzijas, atsauces, un saikļa klātbūtne tika analizēti trīs runās un trīs runās struktūras daļās. Analīzes rezultāti parādīja, ka iepriekš minēto kohēzijas līdzekļu izmantošanas biežums ir diezgan vienāds. Tomēr var secināt, ka saiklis ir visizplatītākais kohēzijas līdzeklis analizētajās runās par komercdarbību.
Naja, normal und normal. Zur Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik der x-und-x-Konstruktion im Deutschen
2012
This article deals with the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the x und x (‘x and x’) construction in German, cf. A: Schade, dass die [Schabracken] so teuer sind! B: Naja, teuer und teuer, wenn die Qualitat stimmt, dann finde ich den Preis okay. (A: ‘What a pity that the horsetrappers are so expensive!’ B: ‘Well, expensive and expensive, if the quality is good, the price is fine with me.’). The specific discourse function of this construction is to negotiate the situational meaning of a previously used lexical item. Typologically, it has been claimed that the pattern is language-specific for Scandinavian. The paper challenges this assumption, providing empirical evidence from a questionna…
Effects of Grammatical Structure of Compound Words on Word Recognition in Chinese
2018
Two lexical priming experiments were conducted to examine effects of grammatical structure of Chinese two-constituent compounds on their recognition. The target compound words conformed to two types of grammatical structure: subordinate and coordinative compounds. Subordinate compounds follow a structure where the first constituent modifies the second constituent (e.g., , meaning snowball); here the meaning of the second constituent (head) is modified by the first constituent (modifier). On the other hand, in coordinative compounds both constituents contribute equally to the word meaning (e.g., , wind and rain, meaning storm where the two constituent equally contribute to the word meaning).…