sentence completion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsentenceandcompletion
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sentence
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.təns/us/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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completion
noun[U]
uk/kəmˈpliː.ʃən/us/kəmˈpliː.ʃən/
the act of finishing something that you are doing ...
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(Definition ofsentenceandcompletionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The most clear-cut language effects were demonstrated on the word associations andsentencecompletiontasks.
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However, such sentence judgment andsentencecompletiontasks were not used in the present study for two reasons.
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The tasks included a storytelling task, asentencecompletiontask, and a friendship interview.
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The responses required from the child in thesentencecompletiontest were shorter, 3-4 words (5-6 syllables).
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All children received the tests in the same order on both testings : picture pointing, elicited imitation,sentencecompletion, act-out and oral response.
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The act-out test in comprehension and thesentencecompletiontest in production, on the other hand, are the most favourable conditions.
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Asentencecompletionprocedure for assessing attitudes toward old people.
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After thesentencecompletiontask, the adult participated in the ranking task.
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Their production was tested with elicited imitation andsentencecompletiontests.
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The two production tests,sentencecompletionand elicited imitation, make quite different demands on the children's performance, which is seen in the results.
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Thesentencecompletionprocedure was designed to elicit spontaneous use of belief verbs.
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In contrast to the other patient groups, the remitted subjects showed preserved accuracy in the anomalous condition ofsentencecompletion, and reduced verbal output in semantic fluency.
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Occasionally and mainly collaboratively, he also uses experimental methods (acceptability judgments,sentencecompletion, priming, self-paced reading times, and sorting tasks).
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As of the 1980s,sentencecompletiontests were the eighty-fifth most widely used personality assessment instruments.
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This debate would affect whethersentencecompletiontests can be strictly categorized as projective tests.
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They tested arithmetic, common sense, vocabulary, word order, number patterns, analogies, andsentencecompletion.
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Sentencecompletiontests usually include some formal coding procedure or manual.
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