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Textkomplexität und Textverstehen
(De Gruyter, 2023-04-03)
In everyday language, complexity as a term is characterised by semantic fuzziness and usually describes phenomena that are difficult to assess. For disciplines that study the understanding of texts, it has proven useful to define text complexity as the set of dynamic interactions that arise when the linguistic and cultural levels of a text are activated in the process of understanding. These activations, which lead to semantic constructions and a mental model of the text, are complex and difficult to grasp, as they ...
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Wie kommen Tierlaute in einen Text?
(2023-08-07)
In der empirischen Tierforschung spielen Tierlaute eine entscheidende Rolle für die Zuschreibung geistiger Fähigkeiten. In diesem Zusammenhang werden die flüchtigen und einmaligen Lautereignisse tierlicher Vokalisation in wiederholt rezipierbare textuelle Zeichen transformiert und fixiert. Am Beispiel der Forschungen von Anne Marijke Schel et al. (2013a) zur Intentionalität von Schimpansen zeigt der Beitrag, wie die Sichtbarmachung von Lauten mit der Zuschreibung dieser geistigen Fähigkeiten einhergeht. Um dieses ...
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Multilingualism is associated with small task-specific advantages in cognitive performance of older adults
(2023-10-07)
The protective effects of multiple language knowledge on the maintenance of cognitive functions in older adults have been discussed controversially, among others, because of methodological inconsistencies between studies. In a sample of N = 528 German monolinguals and multilinguals (speaking two or more languages) older than 60 years, this study examined (1) whether speaking multiple languages is positively related to performance on tasks of interference suppression, working memory, concept shifting, and phonemic and ...