Publications

Predictive keywords - Using machine learning to explain document characteristics

When exploring the characteristics of a discourse domain associated with texts, keyword analysis is widely used in corpus linguistics. …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Veronika Laippala
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Register identification from the unrestricted open Web using the Corpus of Online Registers of English

This article examines the automatic identification of Web registers, that is, text varieties such as news articles and reviews. Most …
Veronika Laippala, Samuel Rönnqvist, Miika Oinonen, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Anna Salmela, Douglas Biber, Jesse Egbert, Sampo Pyysalo
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Personhood and aging - Exploring the written narratives of older adults as articulations of personhood in later life

Personhood is a complex concept in gerontological research. It is often used to explore the maintenance or reconstruction of …
Kaitlyn Jaggers, James Gillet, Victor Kuperman, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Ranil Sonnadara
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How representative are student convenience samples? A study of literacy and numeracy skills in 32 countries

Psychological research, including research into adult reading, is frequently based on convenience samples of undergraduate students. …
Heather Wild, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Victor Kuperman
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Explaining classes through stable word attributions

Input saliency methods have recently become a popular tool for explaining predictions of deep learning models in NLP. Nevertheless, …
Samuel Rönnqvist, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Amanda Myntti, Filip Ginter, Veronika Laippala
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Cognitive and social well-being in older adulthood - The CoSoWELL corpus of written life stories

This paper presents the Cognitive and Social WELL-being (CoSoWELL) project that consists of two components. One is a large corpus of …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, James Gillet, Megan Karabin, Gary Libben, Ranil Sonnadara, Victor Kuperman
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Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic - Effects of age and the pandemic

The topic of affective development over the lifespan is at the forefront of psychological science. One of the intriguing findings in …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Javon Luke, Gary Libben, Victor Kuperman
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The effect of loneliness on cognitive functioning among healthy individuals in mid- and late adulthood - Evidence from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

There is a consensus that loneliness correlates with an increased risk of cognitive impairment and rapid cognitive decline. However, it …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Victor Kuperman
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Spelling errors affect reading behavior across languages

This cross-linguistic study investigated the impact of spelling errors on reading behavior in five languages (Chinese, English, …
Victor Kuperman, Amalia Bar-On, Raymond Bertram, Rober Boshra, Avital Deutsch, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Barbara Mathiopoulou, Gaisha Oralova, Athanassios Protopapas
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Predictors of literacy in adulthood - Evidence from 33 countries

What makes a literate person? What leads to literacy gains and losses within and between individuals and countries? This paper provides …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Victor Kuperman
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Exploring the role of lexis and grammar for the stable identification of register in an unrestricted corpus of web documents

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Veronika Laippala, Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen
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Dependency profiles in the large-scale analysis of discourse connectives

This article presents dependency profiles (DPs) as an empirical method to investigate linguistic elements and their application to the …
Veronika Laippala, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Jenna Kanerva, Filip Ginter
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Affect across adulthood - Evidence from English, Dutch and Spanish

Emotions play a fundamental role in language learning, use and processing. Words denoting positivity account for a larger part of the …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Emmanuel Keuleers, Paweł Mandera, Marc Brysbaert, Victor Kuperman
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A lingering question addressed - Reading rate and most efficient listening rate are highly similar

Is it possible that silent reading rate is the same as the most efficient listening rate? The hypothesis has been formulated in the …
Victor Kuperman, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Vincent Porretta, Marc Brysbaert, Sophia Yang
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Määrällinen korpuslingvistiikka (Quantitative corpus linguistics)

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Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Veronika Laippala
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Commenting on poverty online - A corpus-assisted discourse study of Suomi24 forum

This paper brings new insight to poverty and social exclusion through an analysis of how poverty-related issues are commented on in the …
Lotta Lehti, Milla Luodonpää-Manni, Jarmo H. Jantunen, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Aleksi Vesanto, Veronika Laippala

The influence of syntactic expectations on reading comprehension is malleable and strategic - An eye-tracking study of English dative alternation

Language processing is incremental and inherently predictive. Against this theoretic backdrop, we investigated the role of upcoming …
Emma Bridgwater, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Victor Kuperman
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Influencing the time and space of lexical competition - The effect of gradient foreign accentedness

This article examines the influence of gradient foreign accentedness on lexical competition during spoken word recognition. Using …
Vincent Porretta, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen
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Visual world paradigm data - From preprocessing to nonlinear time-course analysis

The Visual World Paradigm (VWP) is used to study online spoken language processing and produces time-series data. The data present …
Vincent Porretta, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Jacolien van Rij, Juhani Järvikivi
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Opening up

Highlights: The analysis was based on a large-scale corpus of tweets in English in the Twitter discussion with the hashtag …
Marjut Johansson, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Filip Ginter, Lotta Lehti, Attila Krizsán, Veronika Laippala
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The role of morphological verb constructions in processing Russian reflexive verbs

In this study, we focus on the processing cost associated with morphologically complex verbs and explore how the distributional …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Vincent Porretta, Juhani Järvikivi

Modelling the interplay of multiple cues in prosodic focus marking

Focus marking is an important function of prosody in many languages. While many phonological accounts concentrate on fundamental …
Anja Arnhold, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen
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Distributional semantics of the partitive A argument construction in Finnish

In Standard Finnish, the case marking of the S argument in existential clauses alternates between the nominative and the partitive, …
Tuomas Huumo, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Jenna Kanerva, M. Juhani Luotolahti, Tapio Salakoski, Filip Ginter, Veronika Laippala

Dependency profiles as a tool for big data analysis of linguistic constructions - A case study of emoticons

This study presents a methodological toolbox for big data analysis of linguistic constructions by introducing dependency profiles, …
Veronika Laippala, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Jenna Kanerva, M. Juhani Luotolahti, Tapio Salakoski, Filip Ginter
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Creating register sub-corpora for the Finnish Internet Parsebank

This paper develops register sub-corpora for the Web-crawled Finnish Internet Parsebank. Currently, all the documents belonging to …
Veronika Laippala, M. Juhani Luotolahti, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Tapio Salakoski, Filip Ginter

An autoencoder-based neural network model for selectional preference - Evidence from pseudodisambiguation and cloze tasks

Intuitively, some predicates have a better fit with certain arguments than others. Usage-based models of language emphasize the …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, M. Juhani Luotolahti, Filip Ginter
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Sentence-initial discourse relational devices in the Finnish Internet

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Veronika Laippala, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Johanna Komppa, Maria Vilkuna, Jyrki Kalliokoski, Filip Ginter

Ambipositsioonide morfosüntaktilise varieerumise kirjeldusi kvantitatiivsete profiilide abil (Descriptions of the morphosyntactic variation of ambipositions by means of quantitative profiles)

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Mirjam Ruutma, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Marja-Liisa Pilvik, Kristel Uiboaed

The role of morpho-semantic information in processing Russian verbal aspect - Evidence from pupil dilation, fixation durations and reaction times

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Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Vincent Porretta, Juhani Järvikivi

Perceived foreign accentedness - Acoustic distances and lexical properties

In this study, we examined speaker-dependent (acoustic) and speaker-independent (lexical) linguistic influences on perceived foreign …
Vincent Porretta, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Benjamin V. Tucker
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Keeleteaduslike andmete ruumilisi visualiseerimisv~oimalusi (Techniques for spatial data visualization in linguistics)

Data visualization is an integral part of scientific inquiry in order to represent data and communicate findings. Recent developments …
Kristel Uiboaed, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen
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From canon and monolith to clusters - A constructionist model of subjecthood in Russian

The status of oblique subjects is a contested topic. Subjecthood is typically defined relative to syntactic tests in formal approaches …
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen

The Relationship between form and meaning - Modelling semantic densities of English monomorphemic verbs

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Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Kristina Geeraert

Reflexive space - A constructionist model of the Russian reflexive marker

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Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen

Integrum-opas (User Guide to Integrum)

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Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen

Low-frequency constructions and salience - A case study on Russian verbs of motion of dative impersonal construction type

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Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen

Increase in linguistic complexity and creativity in older adults during COVID-19

The reported psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health measures included a decline in cognitive …
Megan Karabin, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, Victor Kuperman