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Yanwei Jin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation represents the first attempt to integrate typological, semantic, and psycholinguistic perspectives to elucidate a semantically "bizarre" and "illogical" phenomenon called "expletive negation" (henceforth, EN) which is well known in Romance languages but has so far attracted little attention outside…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, French, Mandarin Chinese
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Denby, Thomas; Schecter, Jeffrey; Arn, Sean; Dimov, Svetlin; Goldrick, Matthew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Phonotactics--constraints on the position and combination of speech sounds within syllables--are subject to statistical differences that gradiently affect speaker and listener behavior (e.g., Vitevitch & Luce, 1999). What statistical properties drive the acquisition of such constraints? Because they are naturally highly correlated, previous…
Descriptors: Phonology, Probability, Learning Processes, Syllables
Liu, Ran; Koedinger, Kenneth R. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
A growing body of research suggests that accounting for student specific variability in educational data can improve modeling accuracy and may have implications for individualizing instruction. The Additive Factors Model (AFM), a logistic regression model used to fit educational data and discover/refine skill models of learning, contains a…
Descriptors: Models, Regression (Statistics), Learning, Classification
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Muncer, Steven J.; Knight, David; Adams, John W. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
There has been an increasing volume of evidence supporting the role of the syllable in word processing tasks. Recently it has also been shown that orthographic redundancy, related to the pattern of bigram frequencies, could not explain the syllable number effect on lexical decision times. This was demonstrated on a large sample of words taken from…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Decision Making, Reaction Time, Role
Tu, Yuancheng – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The fundamental problem faced by automatic text understanding in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is to identify semantically related pieces of text and integrate them together to compute the meaning of the whole text. However, the principle of compositionality runs into trouble very quickly when real language is examined with its frequent…
Descriptors: English, Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
Misieng, Jecky – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As a result of growing attention in cross-cultural research, existing measurement instruments developed in one language are being translated and adapted for use in other languages and cultural contexts. Producing invariant measurement instruments that assess educational and psychological constructs provide a way of testing the cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Translation, Psychometrics
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Freudenthal, Daniel: Pine, Julian; Gobet, Fernando – Journal of Child Language, 2010
In this study, we use corpus analysis and computational modelling techniques to compare two recent accounts of the OI stage: Legate & Yang's (2007) Variational Learning Model and Freudenthal, Pine & Gobet's (2006) Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children. We first assess the extent to which each of these accounts can explain the level of OI errors…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Error Analysis (Language), Child Language
Linde, Charlotte – 1975
Speech errors have been used in the construction of production models of the phonological and semantic components of language, and for a model of interactional processes. Errors also provide insight into how speakers plan discourse and syntactic structure,. Different types of discourse exhibit different types of error. The present data are taken…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns