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Syufi, Yafet, Made Budiarsa, I. Wayan Simpen, and Made Sri Satyawati. "Language phenomena of sago in irrires language." International journal of social sciences and humanities 3, no. 2 (August 31, 2019): 285–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.29332/ijssh.v3n2.332.
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The current research was a descriptive study which aimed at exploring Irrires language in West Papua, Indonesia. The exploration was conducted to describe language and culture that correlate with sago palm as well as its processing system, especially lexicon of the nouns that correlates with Sago (traditional food from local plant in Papua) in Irrires language. The research was focused on inspecting the language form of the lexicon which influenced by Tambaraw culture phenomena. The researchers have applied Word of Structure in Morphology which constructed nouns as morphological process. The morphological process was inspected through (1) language meaning and form, (2) the wealth of the word that is owned by speakers of the language, and (3) the list of words arranged to identify the type of Sago. As the results, it is found that there are generic and specific lexicons, such as the sago lexicon, especially the classification between male sago (afes) and female sago (afai). Furthermore, sago stabbing wood (memsug), is also a specific noun which is different from (meckur) which is usually used by most farmers. Meckur is used to grow beans, sweet potatoes, bananas (meney), and sugar cane (meras). Sago also has a navel (agen-gen) which is identical to humans that has a navel.
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Zhang, Qi. "A Theoretically Psychological Analysis of Semantic Representation of Bilinguals’ Mental Lexicon." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS 13 (July 28, 2022): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jal.v13i.9255.
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Due to the limitations of the existing research methods per se, studies probing into the semantic representation of bilinguals’ mental lexicon from the dimension of metrology yield no convincing results. This paper explores the semantic representation of bilinguals’ mental lexicon by analyzing the relationship between language and thoughts, the production of language from a theoretically psychological perspective. Such a conclusion can be drawn that 1) there is but one semantic system shared by natural languages and 2) the semantic information of mental lexicon is not attached to one specific vocabulary but stored separately in the cognitive system. The study of the semantic representation of bilinguals’ mental lexicon is conducive to the investigation into the universality and particularity of language itself and to the exploration of the nature of language, thought and human behavior.
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Chattopadhyay, Dr Ayan, and Mr Mukul Basu. "Unsupervised Learning Based Brand Sentiment Mining using Lexicon Approaches A Study on Amazon Alexa." Indian Journal of Data Mining 1, no. 3 (May 30, 2022): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.54105/ijdm.c1619.051322.
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Consumer sentiment analysis has gained immense attention in the recent past. The abundance of data in today’s world, especially those generated from the social media platforms, has triggered sentiment exploration like never before. The analysis of consumer sentiments have indeed helped organizations in effective decision making worldwide. In the communication technology domain, voice activated virtual assistants (VAVAs) are one of the latest entrants and they are gaining immense popularity by the time. Brand sentiment studies on VAVAs being limited in number creates an opportunity to explore further. This study fits into the domain of sentiment mining and the purpose of the paper is to review the consumer sentiment towards the global leader brand in the voice activated virtual assistant product segment, Amazon Alexa. Of the various approaches available, the researchers chose unsupervised learning based lexicon approach to estimate the brand sentiment. Three popular lexicon based sentiment classifiers, TextBlob, VADER and AFINN, have been used in the present context for exploration purpose. To the best of the knowledge of the researchers, this research effort includes, for the first time, multiple lexicon based approaches in exploring the sentiment towards the brand Alexa. This study shows consumers to have a significantly positive sentiment towards the chosen brand. The output from the three comparative classifiers reveal similar results which also validates the robustness of the outcomes and that of the chosen methods. The study anticipates a bright sales potential of the brand. Also, the use of alternative lexicon approaches is expected to enrich the existing literature in the sentiment mining domain.
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McCarthy, Luke, and Imma Miralpeix. "Organizational and Formational Structures of Networks in the Mental Lexicon: A State-Of-The-Art through Systematic Review." Languages 5, no. 1 (December 24, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages5010001.
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This state-of-the-art presents a systematic exploration on the use of network patterns in global research efforts to understand, organize and represent the mental lexicon. Results have shown an increase over recent years in the usage of complex, small-world and scale-free network patterns within the literature. With the increasing complexity of network patterns, we see more potential in the inter-disciplinary exploration of the mental lexicon through universal and mathematically-describable, behavioral patterns in small-world and scale-free networks. A systematic review of 36 items of methodologically-selected literature serve as a means to explore how the greater literary body understands network structures within the mental lexicon. Network-based approaches are discriminated between three contrasting varieties. These include: ‘simple networks’, characterized by arbitrarily organized graph patterns of metaphorical importance; ‘connectionist networks’, a broad category of networks which explore the structural features of a system through the analysis of emergent properties; and lastly ‘complex networks’, distinguished as small-world, scale-free networks which follow a strict and mathematically-describable structure in agreement with the Barabási–Albert model. Each network approach is explored in terms of their discernible differences which relate to their parameters and affect their implications. A final evaluation of observed patterns within the selected literature is offered, as well as an elaboration on the sense of trajectory beheld in the research in order to offer insight and orientation for future research.
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Salcedo-Lagos, Pedro, Sergio Morales-Candia, Karina Fuentes-Riffo, Susan Rivera-Robles, and Cristian Sanhueza-Campos. "Teachers’ Perceptions Analysis on Students’ Emotions in Virtual Classes during COVID19 Pandemic: A Lexical Availability Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (June 4, 2021): 6413. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13116413.
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Virtual education has grown exponentially in the past year due to the global COVID19 pandemic. In this context, the exploration of teachers’ perceptions of their students’ emotions when using ICTs has become more relevant. The aim of this study was two-fold, on the one hand, to analyze how teachers perceived their students’ emotions and, on the other hand, to analyze the emotions teachers wanted to modulate in their students when using ICTs. To this end, an interpretative and comparative study was implemented using the Lexical Availability technique. The sample was formed by 178 Chilean teachers who took a lexical availability test. The analysis included general vocabulary through network graphs and a comparison across gender, academic background, school type and knowledge area. The results made it possible to identify the latent mental lexicon of teachers, revealing significant differences in the perception of emotions, according to gender and ICTs use and according to gender and knowledge area. The study further projects the potential of lexical availability to determine the emotions required by Affective Informatics in the adaptability of educational systems and to make adjustments to the instructional design.
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Robinson, Justyna A. "A gay paper: why should sociolinguistics bother with semantics?" English Today 28, no. 4 (December 2012): 38–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078412000399.
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The study of meaning and changes in meaning has enjoyed varying levels of popularity within linguistics. There have been periods during which the exploration of meaning was of prime importance. For instance, in the late 19th century scholars considered the exploration of the etymology of words to be crucial in their quest to find the ‘true’ meaning of lexemes (Geeraerts, 2010; Malkiel, 1993). There have also been periods where semantic analysis was considered redundant to linguistic investigation (Hockett, 1954: 152). In the past 20–30 years semantics has enjoyed a period of revival. This has been mainly led by the advances in cognitive linguistics (and to some extent, historical linguistics) as well by the innovations associated with the development of electronic corpora and computational methods for extracting and tracing changes in the behaviour of the lexicon (cf. Geeraerts, 2010: 168ff, 261ff). However, there are still areas of linguistics which hardly involve lexis in their theoretical and epistemological considerations. One such area is sociolinguistics.
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Voloshynova, Maryna. "East Slobozhansk names of utensils and kitchen utensils: a dynamic aspect." Linguistics, no. 1 (42) (2020): 4–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2631-2020-1-42-4-15.
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In the article, based on the actual material of recorded 61 dialects of the Luhansk region, it has been conducted a lexical and semantic study of the Easten Slobodian names of crockery and kitchen utensils. During the exploration the functional activity of the identified representatives has been established. The comparative analysis of the recorded names with the lexical material of other dialect continuums of the Ukrainian language has been carried out that’s made it possible to track the parallel names with different phonetic design, the nomens with the different, identical or similar semantics. In the light of the definition of the dynamic trends it has been stated that the lexical units can show constancy in two chronological sections which is manifested in the immutability of semantics over the course of the whole century. It has also been observed the updating of the lexicon associated with the increase in the nominative series on the modern chronological cross-section that occurred due to the presence of the grammatical and word-forming variants of lexemes, the expansion of the semantic structure of some nomens that simultaneously function as the representatives of several semes. Sometimes the vocabulary demonstrates the process of gradual archaization as far as the nomens available in the register of the ancient lexicographic work are absent both in the dialects under the consideration and in the dialects of other dialects.
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Łapiński, Jacek L. "Semantyczno-pragmatyczne znaczenie natury." Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae 6, no. 1 (December 31, 2008): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/seb.2008.6.1.07.
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Semantic meaning of the term „nature” comes from the Latin word „nasci” - „to get born”, and Greek words „physis” and „arche”, the substance of the latter two terms is fully explained in the Latin dictionary of A. Forcellini (Klotius Latinitatis Lexicon, 4, Prati 1868, p. 231-232) and the Greek-English dictionary of H. G. Liddell and R. Scott (Greek-English Lexicon, The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1940, 1958, p. 1964-1965.).
Pragmatic sense of the term “nature” depends on the context (physical, philosophical, ecological, anthropological, relative, etc.). It can be also analyzed from two different perspectives: static and dynamic, this situation leads to the triple opposition: natural versus artificial, nature versus culture and nature versus environment. Ultimately, in the pragmatic sense, nature is a category making sense only in relation to the human being. Nature is a set of meanings registered by the human being in his world. Nature is a result of human wisdom and gained knowledge in science, philosophy and so on. Over the whole history of human thinking the true substance of this term has been always variable - determined by various factors: historic periods, philosophical and social trends, religions, different scientific exploration strategies, etc.
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Hongwei, Zhou. "Everyday phrases in the worldview of Russians: origins and exploration." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 2 (March 2021): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.2-21.008.
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This study examines the origins behind the meaning of everyday phrases forming the linguistic world image of Russian speakers. A large corpus of linguistic literature concerns the lexicon and phraseology and only a few studies look at phrases as the most common forms of thought formation in everyday pragmatics. The aim of this study was to identify origins behind the meaning of everyday phrases, and analyze their role and place in the formation and presentation of the linguistic world image in linguistic pragmatics. Unlike most studies, this work examines the problem of the worldview rooted in the language through the content analysis of phrases, rather than single lexemes, and analyzes them in the context of everyday use. The study monitored 128 individuals, aged 18 to 61 years, for three days to determine what phrases they use every day. The collected linguistic data underwent statistical processing and unique categorizes were distinguished. Of these categorizes, only one is likely to convey the linguistic worldview (it contains words with a broad range of meanings and multi-level semantics). The other two categorizes reflect single characteristics of linguistic consciousness and the pragmatics of social interaction. The results of the study may be useful in establishing links between the cognitive and communicative functions of the language and creating a map of the Russian linguistic worldview for the comparative linguistic research purposes.
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Hassan, Ahmed, and Halima Al-Asal. "Abu Khaira Al-A’arabi Life and Lexicology Legacy." Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature, no. 28 (August 1, 2021): 165–252. http://dx.doi.org/10.54940/ll93270407.
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The aim of the present study is to investigate the life of Abu Khaira Al- A’arabi and the legacy of his Lexicon. One of a number of articulate, urbanised Bedouin engaged in the field, other linguists were influenced by his lexicological classifications and quoted his monographs, having heard them directly or indirectly, and thus contributed to the corpus of the Arabic lexicon. The significance of the present study lies in the discovery of the distinctive linguistic qualities of a Bedouin, Abu Khaira, and illustrating that his linguistic legacy presented here is confirmation of his authorship of two monographs, an exploration of insects, and the second, a study of characteristics, as was suggested by both the linguistics and the "Tabaqat" books. Also included in the present study are excerpts from the above-mentioned monographs which illustrate the authenticity of both the classifications and linguistic style of his time, as being uniquely the work of Abu Khaira. In accordance with scientific research protocols, the body of the present study comprised three research areas each preceded by an introduction and followed by the conclusion disclosing significant results of the study. The first research area introduced Abu Khaira and some aspects of his life. The second studied his lexicon legacy, collected by the researcher from etymologies, and the third included the Abu Khaira lexicon, which the researcher documented and organised according to topic, into two research areas the subject of which was organised alphabetically by the researcher. The first monograph ascribed to Abu Khaira was 'insects' and the second was 'characteristics', classified by the researcher according to the book on characteristics by Abu Obaid entitled "Al-Ghareeb Al- Musannaf" with words in each classification organised alphabetically. The study adopted the descriptive and analytical approach in dealing with the life of Abu Khaira, and the linguistic material that was transmitted by him in the works of linguists, which uncovered aspects of his life, and revealed his impact on the linguistic lesson and the making of the Arabic dictionary.
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Séguin, Maja. "Exploration of the relationship between word-association and learners’ lexical development with a focus on American L1 and Croatian L2 speakers." ExELL 3, no. 2 (December 1, 2015): 80–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/exell-2017-0003.
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AbstractVocabulary acquisition is a dynamic process and there is a constant change in the way words are stored in the mental lexicon. Word association tests are used in linguistic research to observe to which extent mental mapping can be understood. This paper presents the results of a word association game consisting of seven words administered to second language speakers, and native speakers for comparative purposes. The results indicate the possibility of a link between experiences and associations, which leads to the recommendation for teachers to create activities and new experiences that demand the learner’s personal involvement in expanding their vocabulary.
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Al-Hadidy, Aboosh H. "Paleozoic stratigraphic lexicon and hydrocarbon habitat of Iraq." GeoArabia 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 63–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/geoarabia120163.
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ABSTRACT The crystalline Proterozoic Basement does not crop out in Iraq, but is interpreted from seismic and geophysical potential data to range in depth from about 6–10 km in western Iraq, to 12–15 km in the Zagros Mountains, in eastern Iraq. The Cambrian and Lower Ordovician sedimentary successions of Jordan and Saudi Arabia (including the Middle Cambrian Burj carbonates) are interpreted to extend into Iraq based on seismic data and regional correlations. The entire Paleozoic succssion is about 3–4 km thick. The Ordovician-Permian succession in Iraq consists of ten formations that are here described in a lexicon format. For each formation, the type and reference sections in outcrop or/and subsurface are reviewed (as defined by the original authors or herein), and further documented by including subsurface data (electrical logs and biostratigraphic studies). The Ordovician-Permian formations (and their members) are here placed chronostratigraphically according to the “Geological Time Scale GTS 2004” (and standard global Ordovician stages) and the Arabian Plate sequence stratigraphic framework. The ten formations are: (1) the Early?, Middle and Late Ordovician Khabour Formation (with from base-up seven informal members K7 to K1); (2) the Silurian Akkas Formation (with the proposed lower Hoseiba and upper Qaim members); (3 and 4) the Late Devonian Pirispiki Red Beds Formation and enclosed Chalki Volcanics; (5) the Late Devonian (Famennian) and early Carboniferous (early Tournaisian) Kaista Formation; (6) the Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Ora Formation; (7) the Carboniferous (Tournaisian-Visean) Harur Limestone Formation; (8) the Visean-Serpukhovian Raha Formation (proposed here); (9) the late Carboniferous-early Middle Permian Ga’ara Formation; and (10) the late Middle and Late Permian Chia Zairi Formation (in outcrop consisting from base-up of the informal Dariri, Satina Anhydrite and Zinnar members). The Late Devonian-early Carboniferous succession, comprising the Pirispiki, Chalki, Kaista, Ora, Harur and Raha formations, is here proposed to comprise the Khleisia Group. The Paleozoic succession of Iraq is hydrocarbon-prospective in the western part of the country, and particularly in the Western Desert near Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The source-rock component of the petroleum system consists of several potential organic-rich shales including the regionally widespread Silurian Akkas “hot shale”. In the Akkas-1 well, two hot shale units have a combined thickness of 61 m (210 ft) and total organic carbon (TOC) values that reach 16.6%. Several reservoirs and seals present exploration targets in the Western Desert of Iraq. In the Akkas field, light (specific gravity of 42° API), sweet oil and gas (no H2S) were discovered in 1993 in the Akkas and Khabour formations, respectively. The Akkas reservoir occurs in the upper Qaim Member of the Silurian Akkas Formation and consists of sandstones that have a porosity of 6.5% and permeability of 0.2 mD. The Khabour reservoir occurs in the Upper Ordovician K1–K4 members and consists of sandstones with a fracture porosity of up to 7.6% and permeability of 0.13 mD. In North Iraq the carbonates of the Permian Chia Zairi and Triassic Mirga Mir formations correlate to gas reservoirs in the Khuff Formation of Arabia and the Dalan and Kangan formations of Iran, and may therefore be prospective. Southern Iraq, along the Kuwait and Saudi Arabian border, may also be prospective; however, no wells have been drilled into the deep Paleozoic succession in this vast region.
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Baker, Kathryn, Michael Bloodgood, Bonnie J. Dorr, Chris Callison-Burch, Nathaniel W. Filardo, Christine Piatko, Lori Levin, and Scott Miller. "Modality and Negation in SIMT Use of Modality and Negation in Semantically-Informed Syntactic MT." Computational Linguistics 38, no. 2 (June 2012): 411–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00099.
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This article describes the resource- and system-building efforts of an 8-week Johns Hopkins University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration (SCALE-2009) on Semantically Informed Machine Translation (SIMT). We describe a new modality/negation (MN) annotation scheme, the creation of a (publicly available) MN lexicon, and two automated MN taggers that we built using the annotation scheme and lexicon. Our annotation scheme isolates three components of modality and negation: a trigger (a word that conveys modality or negation), a target (an action associated with modality or negation), and a holder (an experiencer of modality). We describe how our MN lexicon was semi-automatically produced and we demonstrate that a structure-based MN tagger results in precision around 86% (depending on genre) for tagging of a standard LDC data set. We apply our MN annotation scheme to statistical machine translation using a syntactic framework that supports the inclusion of semantic annotations. Syntactic tags enriched with semantic annotations are assigned to parse trees in the target-language training texts through a process of tree grafting. Although the focus of our work is modality and negation, the tree grafting procedure is general and supports other types of semantic information. We exploit this capability by including named entities, produced by a pre-existing tagger, in addition to the MN elements produced by the taggers described here. The resulting system significantly outperformed a linguistically naive baseline model (Hiero), and reached the highest scores yet reported on the NIST 2009 Urdu–English test set. This finding supports the hypothesis that both syntactic and semantic information can improve translation quality.
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Schena, Leo. "Études de linguistique française en Italie." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 23, no. 1 (December 31, 2000): 77–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.23.1.04sch.
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Around forty Italian studies of French grammar running from the early 60s to 1997 are described in this Guide bibliographique. They are all undoubtedly noteworthy for their scientific interest, but in Italy the subject they deal with is in need of further exploration. Not only do such studies represent individual initiatives (no large common project has ever been carried out), they also take different approaches, which is inevitable in so far as grammar encompasses phonetics, lexicon, comparative analysis and teaching. In fact, the degree of diversity is not as high as one might expect. Only six trends are observable: pedagogic grammars, psychomechanical, pragmatic and énonciation-oriented studies, lexicon-grammars and manuals. In spite of this, the works in Schena’s Guide clearly show the evolution which the concept of grammar has undergone during the last three decades; research into meaning and the introduction of the human being into language have undermined the widely accepted priority that generativism and formalism give to syntax, since all levels — syntactic, semantic and pragmatic — are now treated as a sort of continuum which excludes any global model. The author’s aim is to present the key ideas of the studies mentioned above and to point out their innovative function in the Italian panorama of French linguistics.
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van Vliet, Marijn, Marc M. Van Hulle, and Riitta Salmelin. "Exploring the Organization of Semantic Memory through Unsupervised Analysis of Event-related Potentials." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30, no. 3 (March 2018): 381–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01211.
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Modern multivariate methods have enabled the application of unsupervised techniques to analyze neurophysiological data without strict adherence to predefined experimental conditions. We demonstrate a multivariate method that leverages priming effects on the evoked potential to perform hierarchical clustering on a set of word stimuli. The current study focuses on the semantic relationships that play a key role in the organization of our mental lexicon of words and concepts. The N400 component of the event-related potential is considered a reliable neurophysiological response that is indicative of whether accessing one concept facilitates subsequent access to another (i.e., one “primes” the other). To further our understanding of the organization of the human mental lexicon, we propose to utilize the N400 component to drive a clustering algorithm that can uncover, given a set of words, which particular subsets of words show mutual priming. Such a scheme requires a reliable measurement of the amplitude of the N400 component without averaging across many trials, which was here achieved using a recently developed multivariate analysis method based on beamforming. We validated our method by demonstrating that it can reliably detect, without any prior information about the nature of the stimuli, a well-known feature of the organization of our semantic memory: the distinction between animate and inanimate concepts. These results motivate further application of our method to data-driven exploration of disputed or unknown relationships between stimuli.
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Wastell, Selma Jo, and Sheila Degotardi. "‘I Belong Here; I been Coming a Big Time’: An Exploration of Belonging that Includes the Voice of Children." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 42, no. 4 (December 2017): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.23965/ajec.42.4.05.
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BELONGING, AS A TERM and a concept, has entered popular lexicon and is being extensively referred to in a variety of everyday and academic contexts. The word presumes a shared understanding, yet despite its common usage, theoretical literature suggests that this is not an accurate assumption. This research investigated what belonging meant to a group of young children aged between three and five years in an early care and education service, and the implications of their understandings. The core concepts of belonging to people and to place had been identified in the literature but what emerged was that children identified new elements, which were powerful determinants of belonging for them. The research confirmed that young children are indeed capable of conceptualising and expressing complex cognitive concepts like belonging when provided with a context conducive to this.
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Wilson, Theresa, Janyce Wiebe, and Paul Hoffmann. "Recognizing Contextual Polarity: An Exploration of Features for Phrase-Level Sentiment Analysis." Computational Linguistics 35, no. 3 (September 2009): 399–433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli.08-012-r1-06-90.
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Many approaches to automatic sentiment analysis begin with a large lexicon of words marked with their prior polarity (also called semantic orientation). However, the contextual polarity of the phrase in which a particular instance of a word appears may be quite different from the word's prior polarity. Positive words are used in phrases expressing negative sentiments, or vice versa. Also, quite often words that are positive or negative out of context are neutral in context, meaning they are not even being used to express a sentiment. The goal of this work is to automatically distinguish between prior and contextual polarity, with a focus on understanding which features are important for this task. Because an important aspect of the problem is identifying when polar terms are being used in neutral contexts, features for distinguishing between neutral and polar instances are evaluated, as well as features for distinguishing between positive and negative contextual polarity. The evaluation includes assessing the performance of features across multiple machine learning algorithms. For all learning algorithms except one, the combination of all features together gives the best performance. Another facet of the evaluation considers how the presence of neutral instances affects the performance of features for distinguishing between positive and negative polarity. These experiments show that the presence of neutral instances greatly degrades the performance of these features, and that perhaps the best way to improve performance across all polarity classes is to improve the system's ability to identify when an instance is neutral.
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Varga, Cristina. "Terminologies émergentes et exploration de corpus specialisé. Le lexique de la COVID-19 en roumain." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 67, no. 1 (March 25, 2022): 235–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2022.1.14.
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"Emerging Terminologies and Exploration of Specialized Corpus. The Lexicon of Covid-19 in Romanian. This study discusses the issue of emerging terminologies analysed through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a specialised corpus. Thus, beginning from studies on terminological neologisms such as Rondeau (1984), Kageura (2002) and Humbley (2009) who state that emergent terminologies are formed as a result of a combination of terminologies already fixed in the language and terminological neologisms. Humbley (2009) also hypothesizes that most of the terminological units of an emerging domain are neologisms. Using this theoretical framework and working with a corpus of more than 400,000 words, we aim to observe the terminology of the emerging field of Covid-19. As objectives of this research we aim to answer the following questions: a) which are the most used monolexical terms of Covid-19 in Romanian, b) which are the most used plurilexical terms of Covid-19 in Romanian, c) is the emerging terminology of this field mostly composed of neological terms? The study is meant for researchers, teachers and students interested in corpus-based linguistic research. Keywords: emerging terminologies, corpus linguistics, specialised corpora, neology, glossary "
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Al Jahdhami, Said Humaid. "Maimani Language and Lawati Language: Two Sides of the Same Coin?" Journal of Modern Languages 32, no. 1 (July 31, 2022): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jml.vol32no1.3.
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The concomitance of several minority languages side by side with Arabic has played a significant role in enriching Oman’s linguistic diversity. Associated largely with the home domain, the vitality of these languages is highly dependent on the attention availed by their own native speakers to their usage and inter-generational transmission. The existence of some of these languages is not commonly recognised, nor is their status failsafe. Owing to a certain degree of lexical resemblance amongst these languages, inter alia, some of them are often viewed and presented as dialects of one another rather than distinct languages of their own, a fact that has fed into unmeant obliviousness of their existence. Unbeknownst to many people even in Oman, Maimani is one unique case that merits exploration. Due to some unsubstantiated linguistic and ethnic considerations, Maimani is often mistakenly viewed as a dialect diverging from Baluchi, an Indo-Iranian language spoken in Oman as well as other homeland countries such as Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. This paper, to that effect, is an attempt to cast some light on this understudied language and to bring it some due notice. A closer look at a sample of its lexicon based on the Swadesh one hundred word list reveals that Maimani has a slight portion of shared lexical items with Baluchi and a minimal degree of mutual intelligibility. Contrary to expectation, Maimani has plenty of common lexical items with Lawati, another nearby member of the Indo-Iranian language family that is not commonly linked to Maimani. The findings show that Maimani lexical resemblance and mutual intelligibility to Lawati is greatly significant that they appear to be dichotomous varieties branching from the same language.
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Bakker, Peter. "Mobilian Trade Language: Phrasebook & Lexicon. By David V. Kaufman. Chicago: Exploration Press, 2017. Pp. 72. $11.99 (paper). ISBN: 978-0999548608." International Journal of American Linguistics 85, no. 2 (April 2, 2019): 271–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/701804.
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Ajmeera, Narahari, Kamakshi P, and Vishnu Vardhan B. "Survey of Sentiment Analysis and Its Impact on Data Extraction." ECS Transactions 107, no. 1 (April 24, 2022): 673–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/10701.0673ecst.
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With the advent of information exploration over the years, the most important thing to make the business decision is to consider the opinion of the people. Sometimes the opinions which are transformed to sentiments plays a vital role in the aforementioned areas. The opinion of the people is shared by the e-commerce, and social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, forums, etc. The opinion is categorized into positive, negative, and neutral opinion. To extract the sentiments, opinion there are different approaches available in the literature such as Support Vector Machine, Naïve Bayes, Neural Networks, lexicon based approaches, etc. In this paper, it is aimed at comparing different types of machine learning approaches, such as supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised learning algorithms, which are useful to extract the various opinions over the Net. It is further surveyed to understand various performance measures when the extracted opinions were transformed to sentiments.
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Petersen-Wagner, Renan. "Cultural consumption through the epistemologies of the South: ‘Humanization’ in transnational football fan solidarities." Current Sociology 65, no. 7 (August 4, 2016): 953–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392116658339.
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In 2014, Boaventura de Sousa Santos awoke the global sociological community to the need to privilege ‘humanization’ in the exploration of transnational solidarities. This article presents the cultural consumption of a football club – Liverpool FC – to understand the common ‘love’, ‘suffering’, ‘care’ and ‘knowledge’ that fans who are part of the ‘Brazil Reds’ or ‘Switzerland Reds’ (although not all fans engaged in such communities are ‘from’ Brazil or Switzerland) experience. The argument is that the global North lexicon of social class, ethnicity, gender and, especially, nationality is less significant as starting points for analysis than humanization through shared love, which consolidates Liverpool FC fans’ transnational solidarities. Accordingly, the article calls for the epistemologies of the global South to be used to understand the practices of cultural consumption that constitute activities in the sphere of everyday life, such as those involved in ‘love’ for a football club.
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Morrison, Andrew, Nina Bjørnstad, Einar Sneve Martinussen, Bjørn Johansen, Bastien Kerspern, and Palak Dudani. "Lexicons, Literacies and Design Futures." Temes de Disseny, no. 36 (October 1, 2020): 114–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.46467/tdd36.2020.114-149.
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As the world in which we live becomes more complex and contested, economically and politically but also in terms of rapid and long-lasting environmental change, design education faces new demands and challenges. We frame and situate these in terms of what we call “design futures literacies.” At stake in such a framing is a rethinking of design’s priorities in the context of climate change and resource use and reuse in futures that are uncertain, contingent and emergent. The article positions design as having shifted away from a techno-modernist design solutionism and to how it may engage in shaping futures through experimentation and exploration in the critical and productive engagement with techno-cultural life. These arguments are located within the prior experience of the transdisciplinary team of co-authors as well as a European level project between four leading design universities. The article takes up their first work package on the co-creation of a Lexicon for Design Futures Literacies and early experimentation towards generating resources and experience for its wider use. The article addresses the largely under articulated relations between language and design (from lexis to discourse). First, we present the development of an alphabetic, lexical semantic set and core grouping of design and futures terms. This vocabulary, drawn from a range of sources and experiences, is linked to the design of a related lexically centred card game. Second, the focus on vocabulary was extended to a section on situating lexis in cultural historical contexts, 3-dimensional haptic form giving and the language of abstraction. This was achieved via reference to a design narrative fiction experiment on emerging technologies and a historical costume annotation project as a prompt for making connections between items from the lexicon and modelling abstract forms in clay. Third, in collaboration with a government ministry and a design council, students developed four future digital urban living scenarios with trust as their central focus. “Languaging” the future was embodied in physical scenarios open to the public, connected to a professional seminar and to international research events where verbal descriptions, explanations and reflections were voiced by the students alongside their educator-researcher. The article closes with suggestions that there is further opportunity for attention to lexis and multimodal discourse modes in shaping design futures literacies, within and across the project but also in practice, in policy and for and as design pedagogy.
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Hamilton, Sarah, Dana Braunberger, and Barbara Brown. "Conceptualizing a Foundation to Lead a School–University Research Partnership." International Journal for Leadership in Learning 22, no. 1 (June 20, 2022): 340–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/ijll14.
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Research within schools has taken place for decades, yet longstanding skepticism between researchers and practitioners has resulted in hesitation to work together to develop research partnerships. Two school-based leaders and one university researcher sought to conceptualize a foundation for their school–university research partnership. During the initial stages of the partnership development, terminology and interpretation of language used to describe research in schools emerged as both an area of concern and an opportunity for exploration. The partners recognized a need to revise their lexicon from terms that implied teachers needed assistance fixing “problems of practice” to terms promoting an approach embracing innovation and a strengths-based practice in schools. Through an action research approach, the authors draw on their meeting notes, reflections, and documentation to describe the process they used to develop a research-partnership model. Results from this inquiry explicate how partners reflected on their leadership approach, key moments, and a changing context to develop guiding principles and a partnership model with potential for sustainability.
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Bartmiński, Jerzy. "Od konwersatorium „Język a kultura” do konwersatorium EUROJOS." Język a Kultura 29 (May 16, 2022): 11–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/1232-9657.29.2.
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The author of this essay was an active member of the “Language and culture” conference series since its commencement. He presents the historical background of its origin and recalls the very fruitful collaboration (from 1976 onwards) with the Wrocław circles of Polish philologists under the guidance of Czesław Hernas. He then discusses three publication series connected with the conferences: the Wrocław “white series” Języka a Kultura, the Lublin “red series,” and the Lublin journal Etnolingwistyka, which together amount now to over ninety volumes. Janusz Anusiewicz’s conception of cultural linguistics is then praised; however, that author’s narrow view of ethnolinguistics as folk studies is criticised. The exploration of language and culture initiated in Wrocław in the 1980s is being continued in ethnolinguistic research on values (axiological linguistics) within the EUROJOS project, based on the good general framework of the “Language and culture” conference series. So far, the EUROJOS project has produced five volumes of the Axiological Lexicon of Slavs and Their Neighbours (2015–2019).
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Fitzpatrick, Tess. "Habits and rabbits." EUROSLA Yearbook 6 (July 20, 2006): 121–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.6.09fit.
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Word associations have traditionally been used in linguistic research as a means of accessing information about the organisation of the mental lexicon. A number of important studies have revealed differences in word association behaviour in the L1 and the L2, but have failed to find consistent behaviour patterns. The study reported here suggests that this failure might be due to two factors: the choice of stimulus words and the categorisation of responses, which impose artificial constraints on both association behaviour and the exploration of response types. In order to move the investigation of L2 word associations forward, this study compares native speaker responses to a specific set of stimuli with those of advanced non-native speakers. The types of association response made by each group of subjects are investigated by means of a retrospective interview, and patterns in response types are mapped. This results in a new method of categorising word association responses, and provides more precise insight into the differences between L1 and L2 association patterns.
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Feraj, Asime, and Arjan Llanaj Albania. "Illustration in Explanatory Dictionary." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 6, no. 2 (June 10, 2017): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v6i2.p249-254.
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This paper has treated the syntagmatic level in the explanatory dictionaries, in the monolingual and bilingual as well, since the syntagmata in the dictionary can be dealt with as being unnoticed, because it is considered as less important than explanations or definitions or equivalents (when the dictionary is bilingual). But, if, for example, it can’t be said in the explanation that a verb or adjective can be linked with words that refer to alive and not alive objects, than the user can see the illustrative examples (the weather became cold/cold (distant) from his friend; a cold room/a cold person; a man walks/ the horse walks ; the time passes/ the work goes on; ecën koha (ecën puna). Nowadays, when the society is developing so fast and thoroughly, the use and utilisation of monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, linguistic or encyclopaedic dictionaries, is the most common and inevitable phenomenon, because these works not only are recorders of the word and phraseology, of semantic and lexical fortune, national and international one, but also have their determining importance in the acquirement of the language and in the expansion of the linguistic and communicative competence, in finding an unknown word and its semantic definition, or in finding lexical and semantic units with which creates semantic, paradigmatic, word-forming and stylistic relations etc. The illustrative examples are helpful for the full exploration of meaning and serve as an additional instrument for the characterisation of the word, showing the area of use and the typical grammatical lexicon enclosure. They also prove the stylistic evaluation and grammatical characteristic that is given to the word. The main purpose of this paper is that by relying in the subject that is offered by these kind of irreplaceable works, it will treat the importance of the syntagmatic level of the explanatory dictionary as an important part for knowing the word and its significance, to increase the lexical and semantic competence of the users of these dictionaries.
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Areni, Alesssndra, Gilda Sensales, and Angela Angelastro. "Le rivolte francesi del novembre 2005 nei titoli di ventuno quotidiani italiani. Ricostruzione dei processi rappresentazionali attraverso un'analisi lessicografica." RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA, no. 4 (May 2009): 31–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/rip2008-004002.
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- The tradition of the social representations is the framework of research that is part of a wider project focused on the role of mass media, as part of cultural system, and on processes of anchorage and labelling involved to define the events under observation. We studied the social representations of French riots of November 2005 on headlines of 21 Italian daily newspapers with different cultural and ideological orientation. The aims of research, of comparative character, were the exploration: of consistence of results emerged in previous investigations, and of role played from newspapers and from temporal distance by the events 1) on structural organization of representational field, related to lexicon of headlines, and 2) on differential characterization of the lexicon of headlines 2a) of 21 newspapers and 2b) of two periods, more or less near to the beginning of events. The population, composed by 468 headlines, was collected by October 30 to November 18, 2005. The textual data, related to words of headlines, and the extra-textual data, related to newspapers, to period of publication (I and II week), to signature and sex of journalists, have been processed by different steps of statistical package SPAD-T. According to the scree-test were extracted two factors able to explain 20.40% of total variance. Through the intersection between the two factors we analyzed the factorial plan that, by providing the information more synthetic and exhaustive as possible, highlighted the existence of four areas otherwise characterized by the newspapers, by the two weeks and by the signature and gender of journalists. The differential analysis of lexicographical characterization of each of the 21 newspapers and of two periods, allowed the confirmation and deepening of what emerged in the structural analysis. Overall results showed the non-neutrality of language used by the headlines. It was functional to ideological and cultural profile of source, to its geographical area of reference and to temporal distance from origin of events. Furthermore results showed processes of anchorage and la- beling referable to need to preserve and strengthen specific groupal identity of the source.
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von Diest, Saskia G. "Could biodynamics help bridge the gap in developing farmer intuition?" Open Agriculture 4, no. 1 (July 11, 2019): 391–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opag-2019-0036.
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AbstractSeveral scientific studies indicate that farmers do not often use formalised decision support tools as expected, and many prefer to rely on their intuition to make practical management decisions. While agricultural science and education acknowledge the different types of knowledge that farmers utilize, intuition continues to receive little attention in agricultural science, indicating a gap in farmer decision-making research.The mechanism driving intuition remains under debate, but is described as a pervasive, involuntary, rapid way of knowing, offering access to tacit (internal, intangible) knowledge that complements analytic processes. Many studies agree that intuition can be trained to increase accuracy and reliability. However, the comprehensive works on intuition by Rudolf Steiner hardly feature in modern science, and yet his writings and biodynamic agriculture approach offer farmers and non-farmers guidelines for systematic development of subtle abilities like intuition.There may be value in collaborative, transdisciplinary exploration between agricultural research and biodynamic theory and practice, for supporting farmers to develop their intuitive knowing. Such an alliance could help increase the awareness and practice of biodynamics, expand the knowledge base and lexicon for the em erging research field of intuitive farming, and help reinvigorate agricultural research toward more efficient, customized and connected farming practices.
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Ellis, Sarah Louise. "The Eye as a Symbol of Ill-Fatedness in Two Canonical Picaresque Works: Lazarillo de Tormes and Guzmán de Alfarache." Humanities 12, no. 4 (August 4, 2023): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h12040077.
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It seemed unimaginable that the eye, denoting visuality and deemed accurate and reliable in accordance with Aristotelian theories in circulation during the Spanish Golden Age could be considered as anything other than a revered hallmark of guidance and intellect. Nevertheless, the literary phenomenon) of the picaresque emerged at the onset of the seventeenth century to defy the chivalric and pastoral fantasies that were masking the real anxieties faced by an era of decline. The picaresque genre brought warning that turning a blind eye to Spain’s already-waning fortunes could not last forever. Yet, by doing so, it lent favour to such blindness, underlining how the eye, both symbolically and substantially, actually evoked a sense of ill-fatedness and misfortune. This paper calls for an exploration of how an ominous utilisation of the eye is presented in the most canonical picaresque works: Lazarillo de Tormes and Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache. From the imperative role of the blind man in opening the eyes of the young protagonist, to the doomed interpolated cosplay of seeing and unseeing throughout Lazarillo’s trajectory, and from Guzmán’s receptivity to appearances and Alemán’s lending of visual lexicon to his picaro protagonist, one must ask: how and why does the bodily organ of the eye, through both notion and function, serve as a depiction of hardship and disaster within these picaresque texts, and how does it reflect the overarching societal views towards intellect and religion during this epoch of “ocularcentrism”?
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SINHA, RAVI, and RADA MIHALCEA. "Explorations in lexical sample and all-words lexical substitution." Natural Language Engineering 20, no. 1 (October 9, 2012): 99–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1351324912000265.
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In this paper, we experiment with several techniques to solve the problem of lexical substitution, both in a lexical sample as well as an all-words setting, and compare the benefits of combining multiple lexical resources using both unsupervised and supervised approaches. Overall in the lexical sample setting, the results obtained through the combination of several resources exceed the current state-of-the-art when selecting the best substitute for a given target word, and place second when selecting the top ten substitutes, thus demonstrating the usefulness of the approach. Further, we put forth a novel exploration in all-words lexical substitution and set ground for further explorations of this more generalized setting.
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Tjuka, Annika, Robert Forkel, and Johann-Mattis List. "Curating and extending data for language comparison in Concepticon and NoRaRe." Open Research Europe 2 (December 16, 2022): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15380.1.
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There are more than 7,000 spoken and signed languages in the world today. They vary in their vocabulary and structure their lexicon differently to some degree. Standardizing this diversity is a challenge for researchers interested in language comparisons. Therefore, we use a set of tools that facilitate the standardization of data so that they become comparable. Using these tools, we created a database with a list of words that appear in studies by historical linguists who want to find out how languages are related to each other. Our goal was to create a catalog of standardized words and links to the lists in which they appear. To this end, we reformatted the available data into a simple text file format to make them comparable across languages. This database is called Concepticon. When we added metadata that described various properties of the words to the Concepticon, we noticed that a wealth of additional data existed. These data provide information about when a particular word was acquired, how often it changes its meaning over time, or which words it is associated with. For this reason, we decided to create a separate resource for these types of data: the Database of Norms, Ratings, and Relations (NoRaRe). NoRaRe is an extension of Concepticon and uses a customized workflow to add new data. Here, we introduce the most recent release of Concepticon Version 3.0 and NoRaRe 1.0. We illustrate the content of the two resources, our approach to adding more data, and present a web application that allows for convenient exploration of the data.
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Beigman Klebanov, Beata, and Eli Shamir. "Reader-based exploration of lexical cohesion." Language Resources and Evaluation 40, no. 2 (December 2, 2006): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10579-006-9004-6.
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Beigman Klebanov, Beata, and Eli Shamir. "Reader-based exploration of lexical cohesion." Language Resources and Evaluation 41, no. 1 (February 9, 2007): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10579-007-9015-y.
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Abraham, Werner. "The unaccusativity puzzle: Explorations of the syntax-lexicon interface (review)." Language 84, no. 1 (2008): 173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2008.0049.
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Costa, Véronique. "Lexical Exploration of the In-Between: Linguistic Imaginary and Mind’s Topic." L’Entre-deux et l’Imaginaire, no. 37 (June 30, 2016): 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/iris.1354.
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Associé à l’instabilité et à l’insaisissable, mais aussi aux liens et contacts multiples (entre deux peuples, deux cultures, deux phénomènes), le concept d’entre-deux semble échapper à toute définition construite sur des oppositions binaires. Il figure parmi les notions à la mode. Nous semblons innover « entre ». L’« entre-deux » nous intéresse comme image heuristique. Parce que le lexique est source de questionnement, laboratoire ou observatoire de nos imaginaires, nous proposons ici une exploration lexicale de cet « entre-deux ».
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Costa, Véronique. "Lexical Exploration of the In-Between: Linguistic Imaginary and Mind’s Topic." L’Entre-deux et l’Imaginaire, no. 37 (June 30, 2016): 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/iris.1354.
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Associé à l’instabilité et à l’insaisissable, mais aussi aux liens et contacts multiples (entre deux peuples, deux cultures, deux phénomènes), le concept d’entre-deux semble échapper à toute définition construite sur des oppositions binaires. Il figure parmi les notions à la mode. Nous semblons innover « entre ». L’« entre-deux » nous intéresse comme image heuristique. Parce que le lexique est source de questionnement, laboratoire ou observatoire de nos imaginaires, nous proposons ici une exploration lexicale de cet « entre-deux ».
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Ґрещук, Василь. "Гуцульська діалектна лексика і фразеологія в українській художній мові: лексикографічне опрацювання." Slavica Wratislaviensia 164 (November 20, 2017): 91–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.164.8.
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Hutsul dialect lexicon and fixed expressions in Ukrainian fiction language: lexicological explorationThe article is devoted to the modern Ukrainian dialectology. It presents the conception of the project of the dictionary of Hutsul dialect lexemes used in the texts of Ukrainian fiction of 19th–21st century. The author analyzes in detail lexicographical explorations of his predecessors which rep- resent lexical scope of Hutsul dialect and deal with crucial theoretical issues, connected with the conception of the dictionary of Hutsul lexemes in fiction texts.Huculska leksyka i frazeologia dialektalna w ukraińskiej literaturze pięknej: spojrzenie leksykograficzneNiniejszy artykuł jest poświęcony współczesnej dialektologii ukraińskiej. Przedstawiono w nim koncepcję stworzenia słownika dialektyzmów huculskich, wykorzystywanych w ukraiń- skich tekstach literackich XIX–XXI wieku. Autor szczegółowo analizuje prace leksykograficzne poprzedników, które reprezentują bogactwo dialektu huculskiego, a także wyjaśnia wiele kwestii teoretycznych związanych z układaniem słownika dialektyzmów huculskich obecnych w tekstach literackich.
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García, Adolfo M. "Psycholinguistic explorations of lexical translation equivalents." Translation as a cognitive activity 4, no. 1 (October 12, 2015): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ts.4.1.01gar.
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This paper reviews psycholinguistic research on lexical translation equivalents to show how accumulating evidence constrained successive models of interlingual processing. Three stages are identified in the development of the field. First, in the foundational era, three initial models of interlinguistic associations were postulated. Second, during the take-off era, pioneering experiments assessed the involvement of conceptual representations in forward translation. Third, the ongoing expansion era witnessed the rise of the revised hierarchical model, which inspired research showing that word translation is modulated by directionality, L2 competence, and the stimuli’s concreteness level and cognate status. Two additional issues that surfaced in this third era are of particular importance to cognitive translatology: the impact of translation expertise on word translation and the exploration of the neural basis of translation. Finally, the main findings are summarized and their methodological implications for empirical research within cognitive translatology are highlighted.
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吴, 小琴. "An Exploration of Lexical Chunks: Definition and Categorization." Modern Linguistics 09, no. 01 (2021): 243–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.12677/ml.2021.91034.
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Levin, Beth, and Malka Rappaport Hovav. "Wiping the slate clean: A lexical semantic exploration." Cognition 41, no. 1-3 (December 1991): 123–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(91)90034-2.
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Manas, Gaur, Vamsi Aribandi, Ugur Kursuncu, Amanuel Alambo, Valerie L. Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Jonathan Beich, Meera Narasimhan, and Amit Sheth. "Knowledge-Infused Abstractive Summarization of Clinical Diagnostic Interviews: Framework Development Study." JMIR Mental Health 8, no. 5 (May 10, 2021): e20865. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/20865.
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Background In clinical diagnostic interviews, mental health professionals (MHPs) implement a care practice that involves asking open questions (eg, “What do you want from your life?” “What have you tried before to bring change in your life?”) while listening empathetically to patients. During these interviews, MHPs attempted to build a trusting human-centered relationship while collecting data necessary for professional medical and psychiatric care. Often, because of the social stigma of mental health disorders, patient discomfort in discussing their presenting problem may add additional complexities and nuances to the language they use, that is, hidden signals among noisy content. Therefore, a focused, well-formed, and elaborative summary of clinical interviews is critical to MHPs in making informed decisions by enabling a more profound exploration of a patient’s behavior, especially when it endangers life. Objective The aim of this study is to propose an unsupervised, knowledge-infused abstractive summarization (KiAS) approach that generates summaries to enable MHPs to perform a well-informed follow-up with patients to improve the existing summarization methods built on frequency heuristics by creating more informative summaries. Methods Our approach incorporated domain knowledge from the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 lexicon into an integer linear programming framework that optimizes linguistic quality and informativeness. We used 3 baseline approaches: extractive summarization using the SumBasic algorithm, abstractive summarization using integer linear programming without the infusion of knowledge, and abstraction over extractive summarization to evaluate the performance of KiAS. The capability of KiAS on the Distress Analysis Interview Corpus-Wizard of Oz data set was demonstrated through interpretable qualitative and quantitative evaluations. Results KiAS generates summaries (7 sentences on average) that capture informative questions and responses exchanged during long (58 sentences on average), ambiguous, and sparse clinical diagnostic interviews. The summaries generated using KiAS improved upon the 3 baselines by 23.3%, 4.4%, 2.5%, and 2.2% for thematic overlap, Flesch Reading Ease, contextual similarity, and Jensen Shannon divergence, respectively. On the Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation-2 and Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation-L metrics, KiAS showed an improvement of 61% and 49%, respectively. We validated the quality of the generated summaries through visual inspection and substantial interrater agreement from MHPs. Conclusions Our collaborator MHPs observed the potential utility and significant impact of KiAS in leveraging valuable but voluminous communications that take place outside of normally scheduled clinical appointments. This study shows promise in generating semantically relevant summaries that will help MHPs make informed decisions about patient status.
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Dong, Xiaoyi. "An Exploration of the Lexical Meaning of ‘Ojuk-hada’." Korean Linguistics 95 (May 31, 2022): 211–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.20405/kl.2022.05.95.211.
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LI, YANG, and SANDRA L. HALVERSON. "A CORPUS-BASED EXPLORATION INTO LEXICAL BUNDLES IN INTERPRETING." Across Languages and Cultures 21, no. 1 (June 2020): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/084.2020.00001.
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Abstract:Explicitation, or sometimes increased “explicitness” has attracted considerable attention within translation studies in past decades. The present study employs lexical bundles (LBs) automatically retrieved from a consecutive interpreting corpus to demonstrate the complexity involved in determining the causal factors that may account for this phenomenon. The analysis of the ST‒TT descriptive data demonstrates three regular patterns involved in LB introduction into and recurrence in the interpreted texts, namely, simple addition, repetitive addition and quasi-repetitive addition. By considering the additions of LBs in context, we may illustrate the complexity of possible causation involved.
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Dupoux, Emmanuel, Sid Kouider, and Jacques Mehler. "Lexical access without attention? Explorations using dichotic priming." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 29, no. 1 (2003): 172–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.29.1.172.
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Solovyeva, Evgeniya A. "Rare and uncommon vocabulary as a pragmatic tool of modern French political discourse." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 17, no. 4 (2019): 92–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2019-17-4-92-107.
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The article deals with the rare and uncommon vocabulary used in contemporary French political discourse. Nowadays discourse studies are becoming increasingly complex and multidimensional. Political discourse is an essential component of everyday political life. The choice of research question is determined by its contribution to cross-cultural communication, as well as by the lack of discursive explorations regarding the rare and uncommon vocabulary. Our hypothesis is that this type of lexis would have some pragmatic motivation and may serve to realize a certain number of communication tasks. Thus, our research aims to describe the collected samples and reveal their pragmatic potential. Discursive analysis coupled with frequency evaluation shapes a methodological framework for our study. The total number of lexical samples is 32 units coming from public speeches, debates and interviews of contemporary French politicians. We have checked the frequency profile of all collected observations on the Google Books French Corpus Ngram Viewer. In order to test the relevance of the corpus and optimize the interpretation of results, we have also introduced a «control group», which contain 31 lexical units expectedly present in political lexicon. Our analysis shows that the rare and uncommon vocabulary serves various pragmatic goals, such as demonstrating the speaker’s performance, capture the audience's attention, achieving a euphemistic effect and some others. Our research gives us ground to affirm that the pragmatic effects of this type of lexical phenomena are due to its ability to break the functional isomorphism of discourse space. The arising disharmony may be caused by temporary disparity (obsolete words), topical mismatch (special vocabulary) or cultural variance (book words with complex semantics, little-known words or constructions, regional and foreign language borrowings). In general, our research leads us to conclude that the rare and uncommon vocabulary possess diverse pragmatic functions, which present an undoubted interest in further research.
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Basori, Muchamad Adam, and Dian Arsitades Wiranegara. "FOSTERING STUDENTS’ CLAUSE AWARENESS ON READING: The Exploration on Transitivity System." LiNGUA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra 11, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/ling.v11i1.3531.
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The opportunity to help students easily read English texts by observing content of the texts, which are construed in students’ world experience into limited set of processes type: material, mental, relational, behavioural, verbal and existential has confirmed the necessity of combating misunderstanding clause meanings (process, participant, circumstance). The notion of reading a text is manifested in the processes from a step-by-step lexico-grammatical analysis to contextual description, which are realised as a configuration of transitivity functions which represent the process, the participant situation, the attributes assigned to participant, and the circumstances associated with the process. These are typical patterns of lexico-grammatical realization. This study will examine the transitivity analysis, which provides the recognition of clause awareness on reading English texts. The implication of clause awareness on reading English texts based on the processes is to describe certain feeling, thought, and perception (perceiving through five senses) and creating an ordered technical vocabulary and way of classifying the world.
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Bonvin, Audrey, and Amelia Lambelet. "Exploration empirique de la richesse lexicale: la perception humaine." Linguistik Online 100, no. 7 (December 18, 2019): 65–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.100.6018.
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We investigate how untrained readers perceive the lexical richness of short texts written by 8 to 10-year-olds in French, German and Portuguese. Seven untrained adults rated the lexical richness of a set of argumentative and narrative texts on Likert Scales while performing on a Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) task. Results show that raters consider other criteria than solely vocabulary in their assessments. Coherence, grammar and content seem to have a particular impact. Concerning vocabulary per se, (non-)repetition is mentioned regularly and other characteristics such as register, length of words, number of words appear as well. For this kind of texts, word frequency does not seem to be as salient as expected.
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Cirovic, Ivana, and Suncica Zdravkovic. "Verbal vs. visual coding in modified mental imagery map exploration task." Psihologija 44, no. 1 (2011): 39–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/psi1101039c.
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We modified classical mental exploration task introducing verbal modality. Consequently, we could test robust effects from lexical processing in an attempt to understand whether the underlying mental representation is strictly propositional. In our three experiments, in addition to map modality (visual or verbal), lexical frequency, concreteness and visual frequency were also varied. The symbolic distance effect was replicated, regardless of map modality. Exploration of distances was regularly faster on pictorial maps. Effects of lexical frequency and concreteness were not significant for verbal maps. However, when visual frequency was introduced on pictorial maps both type of frequencies generated measurable effects. Our findings directly contradict the assumptions of propositional theories (1) subjects were faster in the visual modality, which would be difficult to explain if the perceptual code had to be transformed into propositional, (2) word frequency and concreteness did not contribute as would be expected if propositional code were a default.
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OKOH, MARY ENWELIM-NKEM. "Revamping the Environment for National Development: A Lexico-Semantic Reading of Niyi Osundare’s The Eye of the Earth." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 3, no. 2 (June 29, 2021): 242–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v3i2.556.
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Environmental poetry is relatively young in the literature of the Nigerian literary writers and critics. Literary scholars of an earlier generation before Osundare – Soyinka, Okigbo, and Okara have dwelt more on the themes and language of cultural heritage, cultural conflicts, colonial and post-colonial political, socio-economic and religious issues. They barely scratched around the themes of environment and ecology. More so, their language may be adjudged obscure and esoteric. Therefore, the present study engages in the exploration of Osundare’s innovative and full-scale venture into pivotal issues of the environment that have become of utmost concern nationally and internationally in contemporary times. Also of interest in this study is Osundare’s efforts to redefine the diction of Nigerian poetry to reach a wider audience. Osundare’s poetry collection, The Eye of the Earth is our focal text. It has been observed that critical studies on this collection are largely centered on literary interpretations. Lexico-semantic exploration of this collection can be considered inadequate, which necessitated the present study to strike a balance in deciphering Osundare’s language and thematic preoccupations. This study is anchored on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and eco-criticism theory with insights from lexical-semantic theory. Poems of environmental background are purposively selected from the collection. The study reveals Osundare’s tactical manipulation of “common” language in exposing man’s pernicious activities in the natural environment. In a similar manipulative skill in language use, the study unveils consequential roles imperative for a man to obviate his adverse activities on nature in order to achieve development at different spheres of life.