Sentences with phrase «linguistic complexity»

Fortunately, the education literature gives us a range of off - the - shelf tools to measure linguistic complexity.

That same order has been seen in young sign languages around the world, showing in visible fashion how linguistic complexity unfolds.

Their results: In the textbooks that were analyzed, linguistic complexity increased systematically only to a limited extent and there were marked differences between publishers with regard to this increase.

Run by curator Elisa Rigoulet and artist Antoine Donzeaud, the curatorial programme invited seven international artists to take part, (with Donzeaud contributing some of his own work as well) for a show that explored the notion and linguistic complexity of «checks» — checks - and - balances, checks done to embarrass the parties involved, checks that subtly bring attention that there are people around you trying to mate, checks as agreement, checks as obesity, etc..

For the demonstration below, I'll be using the same selection of campaign speeches from one of my earlier blog posts, in which I used a couple of simple off - the - shelf tools to measure linguistic complexity in campaign speeches by now - president Donald Trump, and the then Democrat nominee Hilary Clinton.

That same order has been seen in young sign languages around the world, showing in visible fashion how linguistic complexity unfolds over time and leading some linguists to say they may have a new model for the evolution of language.

The website development team considered linguistic complexity when they developed the assessment items and «emphasized plain language» when possible, DeBoer said.

SWEET AS PAH Delving into the vowel pronunciations of Southerners, who, for example, turn pie into «pah,» reveals surprising linguistic complexity that could help make better speech recognition software.

Martiniello (2008) found that linguistic complexity affected English language learners» understanding of the question.

Embracing linguistic complexity and the limitations of communication, Prouvost creates films and installations that reveal fantasies, question comfort zones and propose new freedoms.

Thiel L, Sage K, Conroy P. Promoting linguistic complexity, greater message length and ease of engagement in email writing in people with aphasia: initial evidence from a study utilizing assistive writing software.

Future interventions must address linguistic complexities in describing and discussing depression, and engage in the social interpretations and meanings placed upon depression including bewitchment or deviations from proscribed social roles.

Young sign languages develop in predictable ways, offering clues to the evolution of linguistic complexity.

They will then determine whether there is a link between the linguistic complexity of the questions and how well English language learners in the field tests scored on the questions.

They used methods from computational linguistics to define a set of linguistic features on the basis of which the texts can be compared in terms of their linguistic complexity.

The linguistic complexity of textbooks is frequently not adequate for students» level of development, resulting in mental overload or, sometimes, underload.

«As I saw the relationship [unfold] between different parts of the body and linguistic complexity, I was thinking, «I can't believe it!

As our cultural and linguistic complexity, dietary needs and technological prowess took a significant leap forward at this stage, our brains grew to accommodate the changes.

A panel of experts in higher education selected Martiniello's HGSE dissertation, «Linguistic Complexity and Differential Item Functioning (DIF) for English Language Learners (ELL) in Math Word Problems» for its contributions and efforts as an agent of change in improving education.

Background knowledge, linguistic complexity, and second language reading comprehension.

The first action should require a reduction in linguistic complexity (Abedi & Levine, 2013) by addressing the number of word families needed to comprehend text on state tests (Nation, 2006) and reducing the syntactic awareness difficulty (Abedi & Gándara, 2006).