introduction: one of the important evaluative indexes of language development is word finding ability. the application of formal assessment tools, such as twf-2, is the most common way of assessing this ability in western countries. there is not any formal assessment tool for assessment of this ability in iran. therefore this study aimed to determine the validity and reliability of persian vers...

We analyze skip-gram with negative-sampling (SGNS), a word embedding method introduced by Mikolov et al., and show that it is implicitly factorizing a word-context matrix, whose cells are the pointwise mutual information (PMI) of the respective word and context pairs, shifted by a global constant. We find that another embedding method, NCE, is implicitly factorizing a similar matrix, where each...

Visual emotion word processing has been in the focus of recent psycholinguistic research. In general, emotion words provoke differential responses in comparison to neutral words. However, words are typically processed within a context rather than in isolation. For instance, how does one's inner emotional state influence the comprehension of emotion words? To address this question, the current s...

A frame is a square uu, where u is an unbordered word. Let F (n) denote the maximum number of distinct frames in a binary word of length n. We count this number for small values of n and show that F (n) is at most bn/2c + 8 for all n and greater than 7n/30− for any positive and infinitely many n. We also show that Fibonacci words, which are known to contain plenty of distinct squares, have only...

Previous studies have shown that emotional content modulates the activity of several components of the event-related potentials during word comprehension. However, little is known about the impact of affective information on the different processing stages involved in word production. In the present study we aimed to investigate the influence of positive and negative emotions in phonological en...

Objectives The objective of this thesis is to examine word of mouth advice and its relationship with product sales and market shares in the context of the smartphone market. The thesis aims to determine the key properties of valuable word of mouth advice from a consumer’s perspective and seeks to identify the effects of sources and transmission methods on the valuation of word of mouth advice. ...

Aim/purpose – The main objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty moderating effect positive word- -of-mouth on in hospitality sector, North Central Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach adopted a quantitative technique. Data were collected through survey technique Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25.0 was used ...

To confirm the language independency of a communicative prosody generation from input word impression vector, we synthesized communicative Mandarin speech using prosodic characteristics of communicative Japanese speech. The fundamental frequency and duration characteristics of oneword “n” utterances of Japanese were copied to Mandarin through input word attributes. From the subjective impressio...