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Uli Sauerland; Marie-Christine Meyer; Kazuko Yatsushiro – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
German-speaking children between ages 2 and 3 mostly use the preposition ohne ('without') in an adult-like way, to express the absence of something. In this article we present surprising results from a corpus study suggesting that in this age group, absence can also be expressed using the sequence mit ohne 'with without'. We argue that this…
Descriptors: Toddlers, German, Child Language, Form Classes (Languages)
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Volodymyr Mavrych; Ahmed Yaqinuddin; Olena Bolgova – Advances in Physiology Education, 2025
Despite extensive studies on large language models and their capability to respond to questions from various licensed exams, there has been limited focus on employing chatbots for specific subjects within the medical curriculum, specifically medical neuroscience. This research compared the performances of Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic), GPT-3.5 and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Neurosciences, Medical Education
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Bunyawat Sriwangrach – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
This contrastive corpus-based study aims to analyze the similarities and differences of two synonyms "important" and "significant" concerning on the degree of formality in their distribution across genres as well as their collocations and semantic preference. The corpus data derived from the Corpus of Contemporary American…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, North American English, Language Usage
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Day, Trevor K. M.; Elison, Jed T. – Journal of Child Language, 2022
A critical question in the study of language development is to understand lexical and syntactic acquisition, which play different roles in speech to the extent it would be natural to surmise they are acquired differently. As measured through the comprehension and production of closed-class words, syntactic ability emerges at roughly the 400-word…
Descriptors: Syntax, Vocabulary Development, Factor Analysis, Classification
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Büsra Aras; Sultan Bozkurt; Serap Önen – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This research aimed to scrutinize and delineate the figures of speech manifesting in English hit songs. A selection of songs from Spotify's Top 30 Hit Songs List was chosen as the study material. The study employed a qualitative content analysis approach to classify the type and calculate the frequency of the figures of speech within the corpus of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Scott Crossley; Joon Suh Choi – Reading Psychology, 2024
This paper examines links between perfect rhymes and text readability and decoding using a measure of English rhymes called the Perfect Rhymes Dictionary (PeRDict). PeRDict is based on the Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary (the CMUdict) and provides rhyme counts for ~48,000 words in English and for the most frequent 1,000, 2,500,…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Phonology, Pronunciation, Dictionaries
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Omidkhoda, Vajiheh; Alizadeh, Ali; Kamyabi Gol, Atiyeh – First Language, 2023
Previous research has revealed that distributional information obtained from child-directed speech could be informative for children when they are learning grammatical categories. Frequent frames are distributional units proposed by Mintz and explored by researchers in many languages with different typologies. This study investigated two…
Descriptors: Grammar, Indo European Languages, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Amandine Hippolyte; Nicolas Ribeiro; Laure Ibernon; Nathalie Marec-Breton; Christelle Declercq – First Language, 2025
This study aimed to establish normative data for 145 words using phonological and semantic association tasks with 242 French schoolchildren, ranging from ages 5 (Grande Section) to 8 (Cours Elémentaire 2), providing a fundamental resource for future research and educational planning. The participants were engaged in two primary tasks: a free…
Descriptors: French, Phonology, Semantics, Preschool Children
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Roberto Zariquiey; Mónica Arakaki; Javier Vera; Guido Torres-Orihuela; Claret Cuba-Raime; Carlos Barrientos; Aracelli García; Adriano Ingunza; Harald Hammarström – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
The world harbours a diversity of some 6,500 mutually unintelligible languages. As has been increasingly observed by linguists, many minority languages are becoming endangered and will be lost forever if not documented. The increased urgency has led to the development of several global endangerment databases and a more fine-grained understanding…
Descriptors: Databases, Language Research, Documentation, Language Minorities
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Delphine Bernhard; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Myriam Bras; Fanny Martin; Marianne Vergez-Couret; Pascale Erhart; Jean Sibille; Amalia Todirascu; Philippe Boula de Mareüil; Dominique Huck – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
In contrast to French, the vast majority of regional languages of France can be considered as under-resourced. In this article, we present the results of a research project aiming to produce annotated resources for three regional languages of France: Alsatian, Occitan, and Picard. These languages cover three different language families (Germanic…
Descriptors: French, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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Yan Li; Hong Lei – SAGE Open, 2025
As a key component of fluent linguistic production, multi-word sequences called lexical bundles are considered an important distinguishing feature of discourse in different registers, genres, and disciplines. They are also an important aspect of empirically correct and proficient language use in a corpus of natural language because they enable…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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McDonald, Margarethe; Kwon, Taeahn; Kim, Hyunji; Lee, Youngki; Ko, Eon-Suk – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The algorithm of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system for calculating language environment measures was trained on American English; thus, its validity with other languages cannot be assumed. This article evaluates the accuracy of the LENA system applied to Korean. Method: We sampled sixty 5-min recording clips involving 38 key…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Korean, Audio Equipment, Accuracy
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Zafer Susoy – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2023
This study examines lexical density, lexical diversity and academic vocabulary use in the dissertation abstracts written by EFL (English as a foreign language), ESL (English as a second language) and English L1 (Native Speakers) postgraduate students to find out whether these lexical features differ across different English language backgrounds of…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Usage, Doctoral Dissertations, Native Speakers
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López-Belmonte, Jesús; Moreno-Guerrero, Antonio-José; Pozo-Sánchez, Santiago; Marín-Marín, José-Antonio – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Since its inception in 1985, the "Australasian Journal of Educational Technology" (AJET) has been dedicated to the diffusion of studies on the integration of technology in higher education. Its track record in this field has placed it in the first quartile of the Scimago Journal & Country Rank. The objective of the study was to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Periodicals, Educational Technology, Databases
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Shin, Sangeun; Park, HyunJu; Hill, Katya – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study is aimed to identify the high-frequency vocabulary (HFV), otherwise termed "core vocabulary" for adults with complex communication needs. Method: Three major characteristics of the HFV--a relatively small number of different words (NDW), a relatively high word frequency, and a high word commonality across…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Vocabulary Skills, Adults, Age Differences
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