Lexicon Essays

  • Middle Childhood: Tearing Into Vocabulary

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    childhood. During these ages, children are immersed in school and constantly learning new subjects and expanding their experiences. With this, teachers play an important role in coming up with engaging lesson plays that can expand children’s mental lexicon, improve long term memory and also reinforce pragmatic skills. A lesson plan from teachers.org, which can be incorporated into teacher’s curriculum, would be what is known as “Tearing Into Vocabulary”. With this activity, the teacher passes out different

  • The Errors of Speech Production

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    retrieval from the mental lexicon. Field explained that by classifying the speech errors into: selection errors and assemblage errors. The selection errors refer to inability of the speakers to retrieve the words that they want to produce. Substitution is an example of selection errors because the speakers may substitute one word for another word or even non-word. The selection errors indicate that the meaning and form are responsible for connecting words in the mental lexicon of the speakers. In addition

  • Slips of the Tongue as Speech Errors

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    Types of Speech Errors Garrett (1975) represented four characteristics of slips of the tongue. The first one is that the exchange exists between linguistic units of the same positions. For example, initial linguistic segments are replaced by another initial linguistic segment. The same generalization is applied to the middle and final linguistic segments. Additionally, slips appear in similar phonetic units. This means that that the consonants are replaced by consonants and vowels are replaced by

  • A Psycholinguistic Approach to Mental Lexicon

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    Introduction The study of the mental lexicon deals with how words are acquired, comprehended, organized, stored, retrieved, and produces. The term “mental lexicon” is used interchangeably with what some scholars refer to as “internal lexicon” (Bonin, 2004). It involves the different processes and activations done in the brain in order to store the words and form an internal memory which functions as a mental dictionary. Psychologist and linguists who are concerned with this study believe that

  • Evolution and Influence in the English Lexicon

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    introduced into the English language. In particular, I note the different places where certain English words have been borrowed from and how words are often named after people and/or places. I also note how certain words are introduced into the English lexicon based on the different features that the object which they represent

  • COPD Lexicon: Types Of Doctors

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    COPD Lexicon. Types Of Doctors There are so many doctors capable and ready to help you. There are so many different types of doctors. They specialize in a variety of areas. Here are some of the most common types of doctors. Physician. Doctor. A person who practices medicine. They have earned a doctorate’s degree in medicine. Doctor. We usually think of doctor’s as physicians. And it’s true that physicians are doctors. But, not all doctors are physicians. By its most basic definition, a doctor

  • Sexist Lexicon – Can It Be Changed?

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    such as females are supposed to be nurturing and weak while males are supposed to be dominant and strong. The vernacular language use implies a sexist attitude that is prevalent in society. There are several solutions to reduce the apparent sexist lexicon. Sex is defined as the biological and physiological characteristics, which can be simplified to as being male or female (World Health Organization website). However, gender is defined as the “socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and

  • Helen Keller's Use Of Language, Lexicon, And Language

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    Lexicon and Language Language is the most critical tool in understanding the dialects and usage that may often be difficult without proper education and knowledge. Analyzing language is key to understanding and avoiding misunderstandings and misinformation about different cultures within our world, even generational differences within our own community. In continuing to discover language one needs to understand many things including; the key features that make up verbal and written languages. Language

  • Ayn Rand Rexicon Analysis

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    According to the Ayn Rand Lexicon, happiness is defined as a state of being, not a feeling that comes and goes, that is lived morally and based on your values. They claim that a person should not sacrifice their own happiness for someone else ever because it is a disrespectful rejection of morality. In addition, the definition states that happiness should not be based on unreasonable, sudden changes and that a person should not live a life of deception because it will bring about difficulties. If

  • Importance Of Naturalness In Translation

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    CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study As a branch of applied linguistics, translation is an important tool of the meaning transfer from one language to another for every aspect of life throughout the world. Major aspects of life such as religion, literature, science, and technology have depended on the translation role. In general, the translation role in human civilization and advancement is without a doubt contributive. The contribution of translation to human knowledge is facilitated

  • Analysis Of Malapropism In The Rivals

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    individual might know what the target word should be. In this essay, the theory of how malapropisms are lexicalized will be discussed in terms of the structure of the mental lexicon used in producing and understanding speech. This will be done by looking at Fay and Cutler's article Malapropisms and the Structure of the Mental Lexicon and their hypothesis of the left-to-right theory in accordance to malapropisms and lexicalism. James R. Hurford's article,Malapropisms, Left-to-Right Listing, and Lexicalism

  • Analysis Of Hamlet's First Soliloquy '

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    Hamlet’s Concern with Death In Hamlet’s first soliloquy (ll. 1.2.129-159), Shakespeare uses a biblical lexicon, apostrophes, and depictions of corporeal decay to show Hamlet’s preoccupation with the fate of a person after death. Throughout the passage, Shakespeare uses a biblical lexicon that demonstrates Hamlet’s anxiety about the consequences of actions and, more specifically, of death. Hamlet first references “the Euerlasting” (l. 1.2.131) in the third line of the soliloquy. The Oxford English

  • Psychoanalytic Analysis Of What Shall I Do 'It Whimpers So'

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    According to the Brigham Young University’s Emily Dickinson Lexicon, “whimpering” refers to a sense of yearning and desire (Lexicon). Due to a fear of abandonment, the speaker possesses a “Hound within the Heart” that is focused solely on her lover (2). Dickinson utilizes the term “Hound” as a symbol for yearning and desire, thus reinforcing the previous line (Lexicon). The “Heart”, according to the database is the primary seat or feeling (Lexicon). The seat of feeling, for the speaker, is preoccupied

  • Being Bilingual Essay

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    super loud, no boundaries are enforced in our lexicon. The enforcement changes when entering a different discourse community. Many words and phrases make up our lexicon. When any of us our in a hurry or someone else is in a hurry we say a las millas, meaning super fast. When we are out and we smell something very bad we use the word abombao. The word mira means look, my family uses this word for everything, to get our

  • Essay On Sentiment Analysis

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    sentimental natural language processing method for processing the text and use various machine learning algorithms and feature selection methods to determine the best approach. The approaches towards sentiment analysis are machine learning based methods, lexicon based methods and linguistic analysis. I proposed sentimental natural language processing Model for processing text to remove irrelevant features that do not affect its orientation. Sentimental natural language processing model carries opinions in

  • The Main Characteristics and Basic Differences of Generative Grammar and Usage-Based Approaches

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    Through the years, linguists have produced many models of grammar, however, two models have proven to be most controversial. They are Chomsky's generative grammar of formal syntax and functional, usage-based approaches. These two fields, formalists and functionalist, are divided into two divisions of linguistic theories without cooperation. While one field focuses on cognitive abilities, the other directs their attention to syntax and universal grammar (henceforth UG). This essay investigates the

  • The Role Of Neologisms In The English Language

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    period, or event. According to Oxford English Dictionary the term neologism was first used in print in 1772, and thus, is arguably a neologism itself. In the light of linguistic observation, the main purposes of neologisms are to upgrade the existing lexicons and dictionaries with the newly coined words, and the analysis together with the description of the neologisms themselves in terms of distribution over word-classes, statistics on derivational methods, statistics on loan words origination etc. Neologism

  • Hybridisation In English Essay

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    influence of Latin and French over English. As the British ruled over India for roughly around two centuries, there took place a considerable influence of English over Indian languages. Punjabi is such an Indian language which has been influenced in its lexicon by English because of the 100 year rule of the British over Punjab, and also because of the migration of Punjabis to the

  • The History Of The English Language: The Systemization Of English

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    outside world and printing invention. According to Linda C. Mitchell, grammar books during Seventeenth century, was including lexicons, and almost no dictionaries. This essay will be about the Systemization of English. Samuel Johanson wrote the most important and famous book since 1755 "Dictionary of the English Language". This Dictionary was the concrete base of the standards lexicons. Moreover, it noticeable the move in Johanson's Dictionary importance came from the large amount of the words that included

  • Code Switching Essay

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    conversation. Given an observation at a friend’s house: I used participant observation, to observe how my best friend talks to She was now speaking Spanglish. She was laughing and replied to her in a mix of Spanish lexicon while speaking a bit of English in the same sentence, some of her Spanish lexicon included the words chancalas (flip-flops), loca(crazy),Hermosa(beautiful). At this point in the conversation her syntax is all thrown off, because Spanglish has its own set of rules and structure and doesn’t