frequency of vocabulary used in a piece of writing, prose or poetry, is one of the stylistic features of the writer. words are like bricks which constitute the structure of a literary work, and the way the writer puts or organizes the words , reflects his/her literary characteristics which in turn distinguishes him/her from other writers. being simply one of the elements constituting the writer...

BACKGROUND Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients commonly use a high-frequency chest-wall compression (HFCWC) device for airway clearance that generates oscillatory flow with a sine-wave configuration. Typical HFCWC settings combine a lower Vest inflation pressure setting (eg, 5 on the Vest's arbitrary 1-10 scale for the setting that controls the background pressure of the inflatable vest) with mid-ran...

OBJECTIVES Effective health communication is often hindered by a "vocabulary gap" between language familiar to consumers and jargon used in medical practice and research. To present health information to consumers in a comprehensible fashion, we need to develop a mechanism to quantify health terms as being more likely or less likely to be understood by typical members of the lay public. Prior r...

The study investigates the gains m three types of English as a Foreign Language vocabulary knowledge, passive, 'controlled active' and free active, in one year of school instruction It also examines how these aspects of lexical knowledge are related to one another,and what changes occur in these relauonships after one year Gains in vocabulary were measured by comparing two groups of learners wi...

PURPOSE This study examined the relation between African American preschoolers' use of African American English (AAE) and their language and emergent literacy skills in an effort to better understand the perplexing and persistent difficulties many African American children experience learning to read proficiently. METHOD African American preschoolers' (n = 63) vocabulary skills were assessed ...

Although the vocabularies of ASR systems are designed to achieve high coverage for the expected domain, out-ofvocabulary (OOV) words cannot be avoided. Particularly, for daily and real-time transcription of Broadcast News (BN) data in highly inflected languages, the rapid vocabulary growth leads to high OOV word rates. To overcome this problem, we present a new morpho-syntatic approach to dynam...

Although the vocabularies of ASR systems are designed to achieve high coverage for the expected domain, out-ofvocabulary (OOV) words cannot be avoided. Particularly, for daily and real-time transcription of Broadcast News (BN) data in highly inflected languages, the rapid vocabulary growth leads to high OOV word rates. To overcome this problem, we present a new morpho-syntatic approach to dynam...

This study explores the impact of vocabulary scheme arrangement on the quality of author-generated metadata, specifically specificity and frequency of vocabulary terms chosen from schemes to describe websites. By evaluating vocabulary assigned using hierarchical and flat schemes, and by comparing these evaluations, this study seeks to isolate the arrangement of the scheme used from other variab...

Previous research found that iconicity—the motivated correspondence between word form and meaning—contributes to expressive vocabulary acquisition. We present two new experiments with two different databases and with novel analyses to give a detailed quantification of how iconicity contributes to vocabulary acquisition across development, including both receptive understanding and production. T...