Sentence examples for lexical skills from inspiring English sources

These are not, by and large, hardcore gamers who have spent years fighting their way across online battlefields, but more casual newcomers who raise virtual crops and livestock (in "FarmVille"), build imaginary cities (in "CityVille", another of Zynga's hits) or pit their lexical skills against each other ("Words With Friends").

Even though lexical access is supposedly independent from central attention (cf. classical Stroop effect; [6]), it appears that it is not entirely autonomous and dependent on task overlap [4], lexical skills [7] and attention [8].

We termed it 'grammatical ability', as these tests tap primarily morphology and syntax, not lexical skills.

We hypothesize that although all components of language are, to some extent, interdependent, grammatical and lexical skills are most likely to be dissociable.

These differences presumably reflect the importance of lexical skills for the diagnosis of a minority of children with SLI, and for the slightly below-average performance of dyslexic children in non-phonological language skills.

Thus, we predict that a future study with a similar design as the present one, including a sufficiently large proportion of dyslexic and poor-comprehending children, would be in a good position to observe two distinct sources of variance for grammatical and for lexical skills, respectively.

"Earl" is a concise, foul explosion of lexical skill.

Concurrently, a growing body of work suggests that vocabulary ability is crucially related to lexical processing skills in children.

In most research into lexical acquisition, the robot has no pre-existing lexical knowledge.

Without such foundation, writers simply do not have the range of lexical and grammar skills required in academic writing (Berkenkotter & Huckin, 1995; Chang & Swales, 1999; Hinkel, 2004; Paltridge, 2001).

These results suggest that H.M.'s lexical word-retrieval skills remain fluid despite his profound anterograde amnesia.