semantic cue

collocation in English

meaningsofsemanticandcue

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semantic
adjective
uk
/sɪˈmæn.tɪk/
us
/səˈmæn.t̬ɪk/
connected with the meanings ...
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cue
noun[C]
uk
/kjuː/
us
/kjuː/
a word or action in a play or film that is used as a signal by a performer to begin saying or ...
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(Definition ofsemanticandcuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsemantic cue

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However, concerning the magnitude of each cue, thesemanticcueremained dominant; it accounted for 63% of the experimental variance while the context cue 29%.
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The author discusses the phonological and semantic cues available to children as they attempt to process function morphemes initially.
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Several semantic cues support this process of recovery.
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Using syntactic and semantic cues to learn vocabulary.
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I propose, however, that regardless of morphosyntactic and semantic cues, speakers may give words a reduplication-like structure if they possess sufficient internal phonological self-similarity.
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As case marking gains cue strength in older children and adults, how important do syntactic and semantic cues continue to be?
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Gass suggested that semantic cues may have a certain universal prepotency in language learning and processing.
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While some phonological patterns may also have morphological and semantic functions, semantic cues especially are unlikely to be important organizing principles in young children's gender assignment.
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Rather, it suggests that across languages, morphology is acquired by a variety of perceptual, formal and semantic cues as well as by universal properties of human language.
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Paraphrase anaphoric ties contain no morphosyntactic or semantic cues and were placed fourth on the continuum.
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In other words, when listeners are given semantic cues as to where to find the new information in an utterance, the search for accent has less to offer.
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In contrast, literate adolescents and adults maintain verb agreement despite word order, indicating that their perception of ' syntactic subject ' relies on semantic cues in addition to word order.
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Children between the ages of 2 and 5 would not use much grammatical information for language processing but would rely primarily on perceptual strategies and semantic cues.
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Such words that generates recall by association are known as "semantic cues".
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The listener identifies word divisions by semantic cues and a knowledge of phrase structure.
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