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Lexical semantics

Discovering mythorealism: A corpus stylistic analysis of Yan Lianke’s novels in English

Yi Zhang, Chaoyong Zhao

published 24 Feb 2026

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Hyper-MDR: An open-world multimodal reasoning framework based on dynamic hypergraph and meta-strategy optimization

Jian Shi, Xiaobin Huang, Lianhai Yuan

published 17 Feb 2026

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Exploring the role of meaning in non-Māori speakers’ ‘proto-lexicon’

Wakayo Mattingley, Forrest Panther, Simon Todd, Jennifer Hay, Jeanette King, Peter J. Keegan

published 29 Jan 2026

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IconicITA: Iconicity ratings of the Italian affective lexicon

Andrea Gregor de Varda, Tommaso Lamarra, Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Chiara Saponaro, Beatrice Giustolisi, Marianna Bolognesi

published 08 Dec 2025

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Evaluating Uighur literary translation: A comparative study of ChatGPT, Google Translate, and Bing Translator

Qiufen Wang

published 23 Oct 2025

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Effects of word length, contextual support, and prior second language proficiency on the learning of technical words in a second language

Jie Wang, Yen Na Yum

published 06 Oct 2025

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Edge computing based english translation model using fuzzy semantic optimal control technique

Na Wang

published 25 Jun 2025

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The “Dogs’ Catching Mice” conjecture in Chinese phonogram processing

Meng Jiang, Qi Luo, Xia Wang, Ya Tan

published 06 Jun 2025

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Red and blue language: Word choices in the Trump and Harris 2024 presidential debate

Philipp Wicke, Marianna M. Bolognesi

published 03 Jun 2025

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The structure of spontaneous speech changes in Alzheimer’s disease: Crosslingual evidence from English and Greek

Hong Jiang, Zhengwei Chen, Yu Liu, Chun Yang, Xiaofeng Yuan, Rui He

published 22 May 2025

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Sound symbolism is not “marginal” in Chinese: Evidence from diachronic rhyme books

Yingying Meng, Yuwei Wan, Chunyu Kit

published 14 May 2025

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Replacing non-biomedical concepts improves embedding of biomedical concepts

Enock Niyonkuru, Mauricio Soto Gomez, Elena Casarighi, Stephan Antogiovanni, Hannah Blau, Justin T. Reese, Giorgio Valentini, Peter N. Robinson

published 05 May 2025

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Semantic priming supports infants’ ability to learn names of unseen objects

Elena Luchkina, Sandra Waxman

published 23 Apr 2025

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