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Word Type Effects on L2 Word Retrieval and Learning: Homonym versus Synonym Vocabulary Instruction

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to assess the retention of two word types (synonyms and homonyms) in the short term memory, and (b) to investigate the effect of these word types on word learning by asking learners to learn their Persian meanings. A total of 73 Iranian language learners studying English translation participated in the study. For the first purpose, 36 freshmen from an ...

Do We Need Discipline-Specific Academic Word Lists? Linguistics Academic Word List (LAWL)

This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their coverage within the linguistics corpus. To this end, a corpus of 700 linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately ...

A loopless and branchless $O(1)$ algorithm to generate the next Dyck word

Let integer be any C/C++ unsigned integer type up to 64-bits long. Given a Dyck word the following code returns the next Dyck word of the same size, provided it exists. integer next_dyck_word(integer w) { integer const a = w & -w; integer const b = w + a; integer c = w ^ b; c = (c / a >> 2) + 1; c = ((c * c 1) & 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) | b; return c; }

Word-Forming Process in Azeri Turkish Language

The subject intended to study the general methods of natural word-forming in Azeri Turkish language. This study aimed to reach this purpose by analyzing the construction of compound Azeri Turkish words. Same’ei (2016) did a comprehensive study on word-forming process in Farsi, which was the inspiration source of this study for Azeri Turkish language word-forming. Numerous scholars had done vari...