Exploring polysemy in the Academic Vocabulary List: A lexicographic approach

Skoufaki, Sophia; Petrić, Bojana

doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2021.101038

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“…The numbers in brackets represent the count of senses expressed by the single form of each concept. Among common concepts, words denoting GO, GOOD, GIVE, and HEAD rank as the most frequent in the mental lexicon, a phenomenon attributed to the increase in word definitions with word frequency 29 .…”

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Shared structure of fundamental human experience revealed by polysemy network of basic vocabularies across languages

Liang,

Xu,

Ran

2024

Sci Rep

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How are concepts related to fundamental human experiences organized within the human mind? Our insights are drawn from a semantic network created using the Cross-Linguistic Database of Polysemous Basic Vocabulary, which focuses on a broad range of senses extracted from dictionary entries. The database covers 60 basic vocabularies in 61 languages, providing 11,841 senses from 3736 entries, revealing cross-linguistic semantic connections through automatically generated weighted semantic maps. The network comprises 2941 nodes connected by 3573 edges. The nodes representing body parts, motions, and features closely related to human experience occupy wide fields or serve as crucial bridges across semantic domains in the network. The polysemous network of basic vocabularies across languages represents a shared cognitive network of fundamental human experiences, as these semantic connections should be conceived as generally independent of any specific language and are driven by universal characteristics of the real world as perceived by the human mind. The database holds the potential to contribute to research aimed at unraveling the nature of cognitive proximity.

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Section: Overview Of Basic Findings In the Databasementioning

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Shared structure of fundamental human experience revealed by polysemy network of basic vocabularies across languages

Liang,

Xu,

Ran

2024

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“…Words such as "analyze" differ in use across disciplines (Hyland & Tse, 2009). Besides, Skoufaki and Petrić (2021) found that over 1/3 of the Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) (Gardner & Davies, 2014) are polysemous, with multiple meaning senses. Thus, one size cannot fit all.…”

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“May I basil your house?” Multilingual Writers' Use of Academic, Technical, and Translingual Lexicons Through Literacy Autobiographical Writing in a Thai EMI Program

2024

International Journal of TESOL Studies

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Unlike earlier studies that approach academic vocabulary learning cognitively, this case study situates vocabulary learning in the classroom context. It features the teaching and learning of academic writing in an EMI program in a Thai university, focusing on five EFL students' use of academic, technical, and translingual lexicons to construct their textual identities in their literacy autobiographies (LAs). Data were collected from a semester-long and autoethnographic-researchoriented academic writing course that focused on a multi-draft LA writing project. They included teaching documents, field notes, students' LAs, weekly reading journals, and course reflections. These data were examined both quantitatively, i.e., by using AntWordProfiler, and qualitatively, i.e., by adopting a classroom-writing-ecology-and-translanguaging perspective. Both the core Academic Word List (AWL)-570 and a word list specifically for social sciences were referenced. All students were found to have grown in their understanding and use of the academic vocabulary and other resources in their later LA drafts and that they used these resources in an orchestrated manner. This study challenges ESP and EAP professionals to adopt a more holistic and dynamic view of their students' meaning-making repertoires in academic writing.

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“…In a broader sense, there is a trend to test established vocabulary theory within EAP settings. For instance, Skoufaki and Petrić (2021) illustrated that EAP target words' corpus frequency and polysemy had a positive association.…”

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Academic word difficulty and multidimensional lexical sophistication: An English‐for‐academic‐purposes‐focused conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (2019)

Vitta

Nicklin

Albright

2023

The Modern Language Journal

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This article presents a conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12353), a study that featured multivariate models where lexical sophistication variables accounted for word difficulty (yes-no recognition) better than frequency alone among learners of English as a second or foreign language from North America. This current study (n words = 88; n people = 128) conceptually replicated Hashimoto and Egbert with data from three Asian university English-for-academicpurposes sites. Methodological differences included a more conservative lexical sophistication operationalization process and avoidance of stepwise regression. Like the original study, the replication's findings favored multivariate models over frequency, which predicted 36% of word difficulty's variance alone. In a multiple regression model accounting for word difficulty, R 2 = .52, frequency accounted for 17% of the predicted variance with age of acquisition (AoA: 18%) and word naming reaction time (WN_RT: 16%) also being significant predictors. This replication also extended the testing approach by using a mixed-effect model, involving person and site intercepts as random effects. The model's ability to predict word difficulty fell, marginal R 2 = .22, conditional R 2 = .40, but frequency, AoA, and WN_RT remained the strongest predictors. Taken together, this replication successfully supports the original study's more-than-frequency conclusion while highlighting the need for further research into the area.

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Exploring polysemy in the Academic Vocabulary List: A lexicographic approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Shared structure of fundamental human experience revealed by polysemy network of basic vocabularies across languages

Shared structure of fundamental human experience revealed by polysemy network of basic vocabularies across languages

“May I basil your house?” Multilingual Writers' Use of Academic, Technical, and Translingual Lexicons Through Literacy Autobiographical Writing in a Thai EMI Program

Academic word difficulty and multidimensional lexical sophistication: An English‐for‐academic‐purposes‐focused conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (2019)

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