Laura Vilkaitė‐lozdienė
Biographic Data
| ID | 1692344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Vilkaitė‐lozdienė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Vilkaitė‐lozdienė |
| SIGNATURE | LOZDIENĖ L V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vilnius University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3979-4314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vocabulary size estimates for Lithuanian native speakers
The vocabulary size estimates suggested for native speakers used to vary considerably. More recently, researchers using Yes/No tests reported numbers that are much closer together. This article seeks to answer the question of whether we can give an estimate of an adult native speaker’s vocabulary size without specifying a language. First, it presents the estimate for a native speaker’s vocabulary size in Lithuanian and explores its variation depe…
(Re)Examining the Benefits of Pre‐Reading Instruction for Vocabulary Learning
The Effect of Pre-reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning
This study examined the effect of pre-reading vocabulary instruction on learners' attention and vocabulary learning. We randomly assigned participants (L1 = 92; L2 = 88) to one of four conditions: pre-reading instruction, where participants' received explicit instruction on six novel items and read a text with the items repeated eight times; reading-only, where participants simply read the same text with the novel items repeated eight times; read…
Is it reliable and valid if it is not replicable? On the importance of replicability in quantitative research
The idea of this paper arose in a reading group of several colleagues at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University after a discussion of a review article published by the editors of Language Teaching. Titled ‘Replication studies in language learning and teaching’ (2008), the paper focuses on replication studies and argues that they should be promoted and valued no less than original research. The participants of the reading group agreed that…
First steps towards the Lithuanian word association database
This paper introduces the first version of the Lithuanian database of free association norms. This is an attempt to provide an open-access resource, which would be helpful for psycholinguists, linguists, computational linguists, and students. This version of the database includes 277 cue word forms. The responses were collected from 304 participants. In total 15,612 association pairs were recorded. The paper presents the procedure of collecting f…
Light Verb Constructions in Lithuanian
Light verb constructions (LVCs) are verb-noun constructions in which the noun carries the semantic meaning and the verb is semantically reduced, when compared with its main meaning, for example, atlikti analizę (‘to perform an analysis’). LVCs in Lithuanian have not been addressed much so far. The analysis of Lithuanian LVCs was carried out as a part of the PARSEME project on verbal identification of multiword expressions (MWE). This paper aims a…
What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language
Reading-while-listening has been shown to be advantageous in second language learning. However, research to date has not addressed how the addition of auditory input changes reading itself. Identifying how reading differs in reading-while-listening and reading-only might help explain the advantages associated with the former. The aim of the present study was to provide a detailed description of reading patterns with and without audio. To address …
Formulaic Language and Collocation
It is now widely accepted that vocabulary has a strong tendency to occur in multiple word combinations rather than in single words held by grammar rules. Formulaic language is very widespread in language use, in both written and spoken modes. Research shows that the two modes contain more than half of formulaic sequences. Similarly, it has been suggested that formulaic sequences make up from one third to a half of our language. Also, unsurprising…
Reading Collocations in an L2
Various studies have consistently shown that collocations are processed faster than matched control phrases, both in L1 and in L2. Most of these studies focused on adjacent collocations (e.g. provide information). However, research in corpus linguistics normally uses a span to identify collocations (e.g. plus or minus four words), and these non-adjacent collocations (e.g. provide some of the information) occur very frequently in language. Neverth…
Lietuvių kalbos pastoviųjų junginių gramatinis variantiškumas
Straipsnyje analizuojamas dviejų pastoviųjų junginių tipų – kolokacijų ir frazeologizmų – gramatinis variantiškumas. Pastovieji junginiai automatiškai nustatyti iš DELFI.lt tekstyno. Pastebėta, kad pastovieji junginiai tekstyne vartojami įvairiomis formomis, kurios negali būti laikomos reguliariomis kaitybinėmis. Gramatinis variantiškumas suskirstytas į 1) darybinį (kai viename junginyje pavartotas priešdėlis ar priesaga, o kitame, laikytiname va…
Hans-Jörg Schmid
Incidental acquisition of collocations in L2
As collocations are very numerous, at least a part of them has to be learned incidentally when acquiring a second language. There is now an increasing body of evidence showing that incidental learning of collocations seems to be possible. The present study sets out to investigate whether collocations can be learned incidentally if encountered in their nonadjacent form (with words intervening between collocates). It also looks at the role of prior…
Towards the criteria for identification of idioms and collocations
The paper analyses two types of multi-word expressions: collocations and idioms. It providesdefinitions of these two types of lexical items and reviews their understanding in worksof Lithuanian and foreign scholars. A problem of identifying multi-word expressions arosewhen carrying out a research project Automatic Identification of Lithuanian Multi-word Expressions(PASTOVU). When the analysis of the corpus compiled from delfi.lt news portaltexts …
Formulaic language is not all the same
Formulaic language is widely acknowledged to be a central part of a language. However, it is heterogeneous in nature, made up of various formulaic categories with their own characteristics and behaviour. A first step towards systematically describing the relationship between these categories is to describe their distribution in language. This study investigated the frequency of occurrence of four categories of formulaic sequences: collocations, p…
Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats
In most tests of vocabulary size, knowledge is assessed through multiple-choice formats. Despite advantages such as ease of scoring, multiple-choice tests (MCT) are accompanied with problems. One of the more central issues has to do with guessing and the presence of other construct-irrelevant strategies that can lead to overestimation of scores. A further challenge when designing vocabulary size tests is that of sampling rate. How many words cons…
What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language
Reading-while-listening has been shown to be advantageous in second language learning. However, research to date has not addressed how the addition of auditory input changes reading itself. Identifying how reading differs in reading-while-listening and reading-only might help explain the advantages associated with the former. The aim of the present study was to provide a detailed description of reading patterns with and without audio. To address …
The Effect of Pre-reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning
This study examined the effect of pre-reading vocabulary instruction on learners' attention and vocabulary learning. We randomly assigned participants (L1 = 92; L2 = 88) to one of four conditions: pre-reading instruction, where participants' received explicit instruction on six novel items and read a text with the items repeated eight times; reading-only, where participants simply read the same text with the novel items repeated eight times; read…
(Re)Examining the Benefits of Pre‐Reading Instruction for Vocabulary Learning
Light Verb Constructions in Lithuanian
Light verb constructions (LVCs) are verb-noun constructions in which the noun carries the semantic meaning and the verb is semantically reduced, when compared with its main meaning, for example, atlikti analizę (‘to perform an analysis’). LVCs in Lithuanian have not been addressed much so far. The analysis of Lithuanian LVCs was carried out as a part of the PARSEME project on verbal identification of multiword expressions (MWE). This paper aims a…
Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats
In most tests of vocabulary size, knowledge is assessed through multiple-choice formats. Despite advantages such as ease of scoring, multiple-choice tests (MCT) are accompanied with problems. One of the more central issues has to do with guessing and the presence of other construct-irrelevant strategies that can lead to overestimation of scores. A further challenge when designing vocabulary size tests is that of sampling rate. How many words cons…
Formulaic language is not all the same
Formulaic language is widely acknowledged to be a central part of a language. However, it is heterogeneous in nature, made up of various formulaic categories with their own characteristics and behaviour. A first step towards systematically describing the relationship between these categories is to describe their distribution in language. This study investigated the frequency of occurrence of four categories of formulaic sequences: collocations, p…
Incidental acquisition of collocations in L2
As collocations are very numerous, at least a part of them has to be learned incidentally when acquiring a second language. There is now an increasing body of evidence showing that incidental learning of collocations seems to be possible. The present study sets out to investigate whether collocations can be learned incidentally if encountered in their nonadjacent form (with words intervening between collocates). It also looks at the role of prior…
Towards the criteria for identification of idioms and collocations
The paper analyses two types of multi-word expressions: collocations and idioms. It providesdefinitions of these two types of lexical items and reviews their understanding in worksof Lithuanian and foreign scholars. A problem of identifying multi-word expressions arosewhen carrying out a research project Automatic Identification of Lithuanian Multi-word Expressions(PASTOVU). When the analysis of the corpus compiled from delfi.lt news portaltexts …
Hans-Jörg Schmid
Formulaic Language and Collocation
It is now widely accepted that vocabulary has a strong tendency to occur in multiple word combinations rather than in single words held by grammar rules. Formulaic language is very widespread in language use, in both written and spoken modes. Research shows that the two modes contain more than half of formulaic sequences. Similarly, it has been suggested that formulaic sequences make up from one third to a half of our language. Also, unsurprising…
Reading Collocations in an L2
Various studies have consistently shown that collocations are processed faster than matched control phrases, both in L1 and in L2. Most of these studies focused on adjacent collocations (e.g. provide information). However, research in corpus linguistics normally uses a span to identify collocations (e.g. plus or minus four words), and these non-adjacent collocations (e.g. provide some of the information) occur very frequently in language. Neverth…
Lietuvių kalbos pastoviųjų junginių gramatinis variantiškumas
Straipsnyje analizuojamas dviejų pastoviųjų junginių tipų – kolokacijų ir frazeologizmų – gramatinis variantiškumas. Pastovieji junginiai automatiškai nustatyti iš DELFI.lt tekstyno. Pastebėta, kad pastovieji junginiai tekstyne vartojami įvairiomis formomis, kurios negali būti laikomos reguliariomis kaitybinėmis. Gramatinis variantiškumas suskirstytas į 1) darybinį (kai viename junginyje pavartotas priešdėlis ar priesaga, o kitame, laikytiname va…
Is it reliable and valid if it is not replicable? On the importance of replicability in quantitative research
The idea of this paper arose in a reading group of several colleagues at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University after a discussion of a review article published by the editors of Language Teaching. Titled ‘Replication studies in language learning and teaching’ (2008), the paper focuses on replication studies and argues that they should be promoted and valued no less than original research. The participants of the reading group agreed that…
First steps towards the Lithuanian word association database
This paper introduces the first version of the Lithuanian database of free association norms. This is an attempt to provide an open-access resource, which would be helpful for psycholinguists, linguists, computational linguists, and students. This version of the database includes 277 cue word forms. The responses were collected from 304 participants. In total 15,612 association pairs were recorded. The paper presents the procedure of collecting f…
Light Verb Constructions in Lithuanian
Light verb constructions (LVCs) are verb-noun constructions in which the noun carries the semantic meaning and the verb is semantically reduced, when compared with its main meaning, for example, atlikti analizę (‘to perform an analysis’). LVCs in Lithuanian have not been addressed much so far. The analysis of Lithuanian LVCs was carried out as a part of the PARSEME project on verbal identification of multiword expressions (MWE). This paper aims a…
What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language
Reading-while-listening has been shown to be advantageous in second language learning. However, research to date has not addressed how the addition of auditory input changes reading itself. Identifying how reading differs in reading-while-listening and reading-only might help explain the advantages associated with the former. The aim of the present study was to provide a detailed description of reading patterns with and without audio. To address …
The Effect of Pre-reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning
This study examined the effect of pre-reading vocabulary instruction on learners' attention and vocabulary learning. We randomly assigned participants (L1 = 92; L2 = 88) to one of four conditions: pre-reading instruction, where participants' received explicit instruction on six novel items and read a text with the items repeated eight times; reading-only, where participants simply read the same text with the novel items repeated eight times; read…
(Re)Examining the Benefits of Pre‐Reading Instruction for Vocabulary Learning
Vocabulary size estimates for Lithuanian native speakers
The vocabulary size estimates suggested for native speakers used to vary considerably. More recently, researchers using Yes/No tests reported numbers that are much closer together. This article seeks to answer the question of whether we can give an estimate of an adult native speaker’s vocabulary size without specifying a language. First, it presents the estimate for a native speaker’s vocabulary size in Lithuanian and explores its variation depe…
Linguistics (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (9 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Vocabulary (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works)