Essays about: "lexical decision task"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words lexical decision task.
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1. Affective language processing. Modulations of event-related potentials amplitude by induced mood in a valence judgment task
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : Emotional vocabulary enjoys a processing advantage, with the emotional salience of a word detected at 200 ms post-presentation or earlier, signalling selective attention to its affective properties. An individual’s affective state also impacts attention and, by extension, affects processing. READ MORE
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2. 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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3. Grammar "bores the crap out of me!": A mixed-method study on the XTYOFZ construction and its usage by ESL and ENL speakers
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Different from Generative Grammar which sees grammar as a formal system of how words are put together to form sentences, Construction Grammar suggests that grammar is more than just rules and surface forms; instead, grammar includes many form-and-meaning pairings which are called constructions. For years, Construction Grammarians have been investigating constructions with various approaches, including corpus-linguistics, pedagogical, second language acquisition and so on, yet there is still room for exploration. READ MORE
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4. Automated Essay Scoring for English Using Different Neural Network Models for Text Classification
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Written skills are an essential evaluation criterion for a student’s creativity, knowledge, and intellect. Consequently, academic writing is a common part of university and college admissions applications, standardized tests, and classroom assessments. However, the task for teachers is quite daunting when it comes to essay scoring. READ MORE
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5. Automaticity in L2 learning: Correlation between vocabulary proficiency and response time in word recognition
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Automaticity (in this essay defined as short response time) and fluency in language use are closely connected to each other and some research has been conducted regarding some of the aspects involved. In fact, the notion of automaticity is still debated and many definitions and opinions on what automaticity is have been suggested (Andersson,1987, 1992, 1993, Logan, 1988, Segalowitz, 2010). READ MORE