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High levels of literate competence involve learning a somewhat specialized vocabulary as well as the nuances of meaning that are relevant to lexical choice.

Years later, he spoke of how "all human activity is flawed" and of his belief that it is "by intimacy with the flaw that we discern our real humanity", and perhaps this is the quality that makes Cohen's writing resonate so well – not the cold-eyed precision of lexical choice, so much as intimacy with his words.

All essays were analyzed for complexity, grammatical accuracy, fluency, lexical choice, lexical accuracy and propositional content.

The input is represented as a sentence tree in which all content words are assumed to have been previously selected following some lexical choice policy (e.g., [25, 26]).

If the internal representation is instead more language-like, then chunks will be relatively small, often single propositions, and the lexical choice process will resemble internal paraphrasing of the logical forms.

Concerning the concept of formality in visual-spatial languages, most works are centred on the use of American Sign Language (ASL; Zimmer 1989; Metzger 1993; Quinto-Pozos and Reynolds 2012), observing linguistic features such as discourse strategies and lexical choice.

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Smith is both stylish and inventive with his lexical choices – "goldfishing" a smoke-ring is one I particularly liked.

Additionally, grammatical and lexical choices are available to the writer, as reading the examples above will show, and everyone knows the special artistry and techniques involved in composing written memorandums or letters if they are to achieve precisely the purpose for which they are intended.

The veneer of impartiality involves the selection of dominant - the most probable - lexical choices.

Such expressions, which are found in signature blocks, as well as in other conventionalized communications like greetings and insults, often have quite idiosyncratic lexical choices.

This speaks against the possibility that the topic dictates the vocabulary, and equally against the possibility that mutual imitation causes strong convergence in lexical choices as people interact in the discussion.

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