Users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) aids could benefit from novel methods for accelerating access to contextually relevant vocabulary. This paper describes our initial efforts toward improving access to situational vocabulary through the use of geographic context to predict vocabulary. A corpus of spoken data produced by one able-bodied male speaker across various location...

the current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. it intends to determine whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to efl learners' reading comprehension, and to investigate which one of these variables, that is, depth or breadth of vocabulary knowledge, makes a more important ...

The study of individual differences encompasses broad constructs including intelligence, creativity, and personality. However, substantially less research is devoted to the study of specific aptitudes in spite of their importance to educational, occupational, and avocational success. We sought to determine subcortical brain structural correlates of several broad aptitudes including Math, Vocabu...

We use the rank{frequency analysis for the estimation of Kernel Vocabulary size within speci c corpora of Ukrainian. The extrapolation of high-rank behaviour is utilized for estimation of the total vocabulary size.

Kinki University, Japan [email protected] Recent research has shown that pairedassociate learning is an effective way to acquire second language vocabulary. However, much research in the field has measured small-scale vocabulary learning. This is due to the methods which learners used to conduct paired-associate learning: paper flash cards. This project sought to measure vocabulary growth ov...

Abstract As the Thirty Years’ War was greatest demographic crisis in Europe between Black Death and two World Wars, it is unsurprising that conflict created number of refugees continent’s history prior to twentieth century. However, limited scholarship on displaced persons 1618 1648 has been exclusively based micro-level eyewitness accounts, diaries, memoirs. This article broadens scope studies...