contextual feature

collocation in English

meaningsofcontextualandfeature

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contextual
adjective
uk
/kənˈteks.tʃu.əl/
us
/kənˈteks.tʃu.əl/
related to the context ...
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feature
noun
uk
/ˈfiː.tʃər/
us
/ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
a typical quality or an important part ...
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(Definition ofcontextualandfeaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontextual feature

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The accent of the speaker is acontextualfeature.
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To date, there exists no in-depth investigation of the influence of a singlecontextualfeatureon language development.
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These statements express in quantitative terms the strength of association between acontextualfeatureand the linguistic variable (1996:253).
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Such acontextualfeaturecannot be attributed to the child and shows the importance of casting a broad net in defining factors that place children on pathways to disorder.
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However, the studies mentioned above do not take into consideration the salience of contextual features in establishing such linkages in talk-in-interaction.
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We know that children are capable of observing statistical correspondences between contextual features and forms.
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The semantic and contextual features of the genitive's noun phrase constituents play a key role in the identification of the semantic relation.
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It should be clear that this distinction may depend on contextual features.
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In fact, if contextual features do affect how the particular language ability construct is engaged, then we should be purposefully seeking those features.
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These changes were directly related to contextual features.
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Its contextual features are qualitatively not unlike those of, say, transitive verbs.
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The examples in figures 3, 4, 8 and 9 show those contextual features both in nominal stem and morpheme entries.
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Inclusion of contextual features does not yield a better performance.
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This study highlighted the fact that instructional treatments such as error correction may interact with learner characteristics and contextual features in complex ways.
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However, the core process can be influenced by contextual features.
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As there is no theory for these contextual features, a "do-it-both-ways" rule amounts to a waste of money.
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Contextual features are useful for classification only when they are considered in combination with other features.
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We next examine how accuracy is affected when contextual features are combined with features representing argument relations.
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