Essays about: "lexical similarities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words lexical similarities.

  1. 1. The cross-linguistic influence on L2 learners' ability to use morphosyntactic cues predictively. : A psycholinguistic study on German grammatical gender acquisition by Greek native speakers.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Mavra Mylona; [2023]
    Keywords : Grammatical gender; Prediction; Second Language Acquisition; Gender Assignment; Picture Selection;

    Abstract : German and Greek are both Indo-European languages that realize grammatical gender and indeed they have similar grammatical gender systems, they both realize three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter). They pose some similarities concerning gender agreement as well. However, the lexical gender between these two languages differs a lot. READ MORE

  3. 2. Stylometric Embeddings for Book Similarities

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Beichen Chen; [2021]
    Keywords : Stylometry; Authorship attribution; Embeddings; Neural networks; Natural language processing; Book recommendations; Stilometri; Författarbestämning; Vektorrum; Neurala nätverk; Språkteknologi; Bokrekommendationer;

    Abstract : Stylometry is the field of research aimed at defining features for quantifying writing style, and the most studied question in stylometry has been authorship attribution, where given a set of texts with known authorship, we are asked to determine the author of a new unseen document. In this study a number of lexical and syntactic stylometric feature sets were extracted for two datasets, a smaller one containing 27 books from 25 authors, and a larger one containing 11,063 books from 316 authors. READ MORE

  4. 3. Variation in Assessment : A Coh-Metrix Analysis of Evaluation of Written English in the Swedish Upper Secondary School

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Hugo Simion Malmcrona; [2020]
    Keywords : Writing assessment; lexical sophistication; cohesion; Coh-Metrix; L2 writing;

    Abstract : Reliable evaluation is an important part of language education. However, reliable evaluation of student writing is notoriously difficult to achieve nationally. READ MORE

  5. 4. “Ha ha ha. Looks like the case is closed, ha ha ha” A Corpus Study of Imitative Interjections in the English Language

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Sigrid Sundmark; [2020]
    Keywords : interjection; imitative interjection; onomatopoeia; spoken language; sound symbolism; semantics; linguistics; exclamative; comics; oh; hmm; aha.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The focus of this bachelor’s essay is to investigate non-lexical interjections. In this study, imitative interjection proves to be an appropriate term for interjections such as mm-hmm and wow, with non-lexical properties distinguishing them from hey and yes. READ MORE

  6. 5. Quantified characteristics of easy-to-read Finnish news texts

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för moderna språk

    Author : Spencer Benjamin Walle; [2020]
    Keywords : Finnish; easy-to-read; news; corpus analysis; finska; lättläst; nyheter; korpusanalys;

    Abstract : I denna studie analyseras nyheter på lättläst finska för att ta reda på hur texterna kvantitativt präglas av riktlinjer kring lättläst finska. Korpusarna samlades av nyhetsartiklar skrivna på standardfinska respektive lättläst finska och den komparativa analysen syftade till att fastställa vissa kvantitativa parametrar, bl.a. READ MORE