Essays about: "lexical competition"
Found 5 essays containing the words lexical competition.
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1. Trilingual spoken word recognition : Interlingual competition from one or two non-target languages in a sentence context
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskningAbstract : Persistent non-target language co-activation in spoken and visual language comprehension has been found both at the word-level and at the level of a sentence, although in the latter case, sentence bias has been observed to modulate the co-activation which can create lexical competition. In the case of trilingual speakers, both non-target languages may potentially compete with the third language (L3). READ MORE
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2. An online study of L2 relative clause processing: Evidence from self-paced reading in Persian learners of English
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : This study examines relative clause (RC) processing in Persian learners of English and native speakers of English to explore whether or how different task demands, referential context information with three potential RC antecedents along with the variables noun type (definite, indefinite), RC length (short, long) and RC type (extraposed, non-extraposed) affect their processing, using both an online non-cumulative self-paced reading task and an offline questionnaire. In the self-paced reading task, the online processing of RC attachment resolution was examined when participants read temporarily ambiguous sentences with RCs preceded by one clause or two clauses containing three NPs followed by comprehension questions to explore L2 RC attachment preferences. READ MORE
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3. Exploring the effect of stimulus list composition on the Cognate Facilitation Effect in bilingual lexical decision : A study of Danish-Swedish bilinguals
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighetAbstract : Cognate words have a shared orthographic and semantic representation across languages: kniv (‘knife’) in Danish means the same as kniv in Swedish. Their shared form and meaning give cognates a special status in the bilingual mental lexicon and there is robust evidence that because of this special status they are processed faster than non-cognate words. READ MORE
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4. Lexical competition and predictive certainty in speech recognition: Modulations of pre-activation negativity amplitude by continuations, entropy and inhibition
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/FonetikAbstract : A growing body of evidence suggests that speech recognition is facilitated by rapid activation of possible lexical candidates and subsequent competition and selection. An event-related potential (ERP) component 136-204 ms after word onset, the pre-activation negativity (PrAN), correlates with lexical competition. READ MORE
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5. And the winner is... : Predicting the outcome of Melodifestivalen by analyzing the sentiment value of Tweets
University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)Abstract : In a world where a lot of people post their feelings about things on social media, the interest in using sentiment analysis to be able to collect and understand these feelings has arisen. This thesis aims to investigate the possibility of predicting the outcome of a television competition, decided partly by the viewers’ votes, using sentiment analysis on tweets. READ MORE
