From 'Anomia: Fragments Toward a Grammar of Endings'

Toward a neurology of grammar

of the original article: During the first two years of human life a common neural substrate (roughly Broca’s area) underlies the hierarchical organization of elements in the development of speech as well as the capacity to combine objects manually, including tool use. Subsequent cortical differentiation, beginning at age two, creates distinct, relatively modularized capacities for linguistic gr...

From Cogram To Alcogram: Toward A Controlled English Grammar Checker

In this l~q)er we describe the roots of ControUed English (CE), the analysis of several existing CE grammars, the development of a wcll-lbunded lS0-rule CE grammar (COGRAM), the elaboration of an algorithmic variant (ALCOGRAM) as a basis for NLP applications, the use of ALCOGRAM in a CAI program teaching writers how to use it effectively, aud the preparatory study into a Controlled English gram...

Toward a Shock Grammar for Recognition

Toward a Lexicalized Grammar for InterlinguasCLARE

In this paper we present one aspect of our research on machine translation (MT): capturing the grammatical and computational relation between (i) the interlingua (IL) as deened declaratively in the lexicon and (ii) the IL as deened procedurally by way of algorithms that compose and decompose pivot IL forms. We begin by examining the interlinguas in the lexicons of a variety of current IL-based ...

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...