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Li, Yangping; Kenett, Yoed N.; Hu, Weiping; Beaty, Roger E. – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
Metaphors are a common way to express creative language, yet the cognitive basis of figurative language production remains poorly understood. Previous studies found that higher creative individuals can better comprehend novel metaphors, potentially due to a more flexible semantic memory network structure conducive to remote conceptual combination.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Semantics, Networks, Creativity
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Ratner, Nan Bernstein; MacWhinney, Brian – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023
Background: We discuss a free software system (Computerized Language Analysis [CLAN]) that can enable fast, thorough, and informative language sample analysis (LSA). Method: We describe methods for eliciting, transcribing, analyzing, and interpreting language samples. Using a hypothetical child speaker, we illustrate use KidEval to generate a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Goal Orientation, Computational Linguistics, Syntax
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Ben Naismith; Alan Juffs – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Research into vocabulary knowledge often differentiates between breadth (how many words a person knows) and depth (how well the words are known). Both theoretical categories are essential for understanding language learners' lexical development, but how the different aspects of vocabulary knowledge interconnect has not received the same attention…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Ardi, Norizah; Ahmad, Amirah; Daud, Noriza; Ismail, Nurrissammimayantie – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
Speech acts are a way to conceptualize speech as an action. Speech act of flaming is an utterance that expresses insults; swearing; and hateful; intense language in hostile online interaction. Flaming is an expressive speech act and often leads to the trading of insults between members within a certain conversation. Social media is one of the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Foreign Countries, Social Media, Intention
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Dirks, Evelien; Stevens, Angela; Kok, Sigrid; Frijns, Johan; Rieffe, Carolien – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study examined the quantity and quality of parental linguistic input to toddlers with moderate hearing loss (MHL) compared with toddlers with normal hearing (NH). The linguistic input to eighteen toddlers with MHL and twenty-four toddlers with NH was examined during a 10-minute free-play activity in their home environment. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Linguistic Input, Toddlers, Hearing Impairments