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Luijim S. Jose – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study investigates the phenomenon of semantic restriction in selected passages of the Gospel of Matthew from the King James Version (KJV). The research focuses on the evolution of word meanings over time, specifically identifying words that have become narrower in meaning, leading to potential misinterpretations of the biblical text.…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Semantics, Language Usage, Greek
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Katherine Trice; Dionysia Saratsli; Anna Papafragou; Zhenghan Qi – Developmental Science, 2025
Children can acquire novel word meanings by using pragmatic cues. However, previous literature has frequently focused on in-the-moment word-to-meaning mappings, not delayed retention of novel vocabulary. Here, we examine how children use pragmatics as they learn and retain novel words. Thirty-three younger children (mean age: 5.0, range: 4.0-6.0,…
Descriptors: Children, Young Children, Language Acquisition, Semantics
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Chris J. Cookson – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2025
This paper details the methodology originally used for a cross-sector literature review of formative evaluation in Germany. The study involved an online keyword search using academic databases and Google Search to uncover documents containing and meaningfully discussing formative evaluation as well as alternative forms of this term in German that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Formative Evaluation, Semantics
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Kristin Nellenbach; Carrie Knight; Bailey Jennings – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate language development and disorders course titles across communication sciences and disorders (CSD) graduate programs in an effort to determine whether adolescents were specifically being recognized via inclusive language or dedicated courses. The findings can be used to propel important…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Communication Disorders, Communication (Thought Transfer), Speech Instruction
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Niamh Devane; Sofia Mazzoleni; Nicholas Behn; Jane Marshall; Stephanie Wilson; Katerina Hilari – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background and Aims: The reliability and validity of an intervention can be improved by checking treatment fidelity (TF). TF methods identify core components of an intervention, check their presence (or absence) and identify threats to fidelity. The Virtual Elaborated Semantic Feature Analysis (VESFA) intervention comprised individual sessions of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Intervention, Fidelity, Feasibility Studies
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Yinuo Zhu; Mengmeng Cai; Pei Wang; Xin Chang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study, employing unmasked priming lexical decision tasks, examines the possible effects of the phonogram properties on the representation of Chinese phonograms and their radicals. In Experiment 1, the representation of radicals (semantic radical and phonetic radical) and their host phonograms is compared under various phonograms types.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Word Recognition, Phonics
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Alina Arseniev-Koehler – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Measuring meaning is a central problem in cultural sociology and word embeddings may offer powerful new tools to do so. But like any tool, they build on and exert theoretical assumptions. In this paper, I theorize the ways in which word embeddings model three core premises of a structural linguistic theory of meaning: that meaning is coherent,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Sociology, Language Usage, Structural Linguistics
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Rebecca Zhu; Alison Gopnik – Child Development, 2024
Three preregistered experiments, conducted in 2021, investigated whether English-speaking American preschoolers (N = 120; 4-6 years; 54 females, predominantly White) and adults (N = 80; 18-52 years; 59 females, predominantly Asian) metonymically extend owners' names to owned objects--an extension not typically found in English. In Experiment 1, 5-…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, English, Young Children
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Yasuki Noguchi – npj Science of Learning, 2024
When we memorize multiple words simultaneously, semantic relatedness among those words assists memory. For example, the information about "apple", "banana," and "orange" will be connected via a common concept of "fruits" and become easy to retain and recall. Neural mechanisms underlying this semantic…
Descriptors: Memory, Semantics, Short Term Memory, Brain
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Felipe Cárdenas-Támara; Johanna Choconta Bejarano – Critical Education, 2025
This study aimed to understand, from a critical point of view, the condition of semantic, discursive, and rhetorical displacement that operates in the Colombian educational system, where the category of education has been displaced by the concept of competence. The following question guides the investigation: What are the deep meanings, from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Competency Based Education
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Dymarska, Agata; Connell, Louise; Banks, Briony – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Semantic richness theory predicts that words with richer, more distinctive semantic representations should facilitate performance in a word recognition memory task. We investigated the contribution of multiple aspects of sensorimotor experience--those relating to the body, communication, food, and objects--to word recognition memory, by analyzing…
Descriptors: Memory, Semantics, Word Recognition, Sensory Experience
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Beekhuizen, Barend; Armstrong, Blair C.; Stevenson, Suzanne – Cognitive Science, 2021
Lexical ambiguity--the phenomenon of a single word having multiple, distinguishable senses--is pervasive in language. Both the degree of ambiguity of a word (roughly, its number of senses) and the relatedness of those senses have been found to have widespread effects on language acquisition and processing. Recently, distributional approaches to…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Lexicology, Semantics, English
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Xieling Chen; Di Zou; Gary Cheng; Haoran Xie – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) brings rich opportunities for understanding learners' experiences based on analyzing learner-generated content such as course reviews. Traditionally, the unstructured textual data is analyzed qualitatively via manual coding, thus failing to offer a timely understanding of the learner's experiences.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Semantics, Course Evaluation, MOOCs
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Simon M. Ceh; Alexander P. Christensen; Izabela Lebuda; Mathias Benedek – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
The present study explored the public conceptualization of creativity on Twitter through co-listed hashtags associated with #creativity in a million tweets. Exploratory Graph Analysis was used to identify a network of semantic clusters, and a pre-trained language model yielded the sentiment of the underlying tweets. The semantic clusters reflect…
Descriptors: Creativity, Social Media, Telecommunications, Semantics
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Juliana Ronderos; Anny Castilla-Earls; Arturo E. Hernandez; Lisa Fitton – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study investigated the dimensionality of language in bilingual children using measures of semantics and morphosyntax in English and Spanish. Method: Participants included 112 Spanish-English bilingual children ages 4-8 years from a wide range of language abilities and dominance profiles. Using measures of semantics and morphosyntax…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Semantics
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