Kazem Pouralvar

[ 1 ] - A Correlational Study of Expectancy Grammar’s Manifestation on Cloze Test and Lexical Collocational Density

The notion of expectancy grammar as a key to understanding the nature of psychologically real processes that underlie language use is introduced by Oller (1979). A central issue in this notion is that expectancy generating systems are constructed and modified in the course of language acquisition. Thus, one of the characteristics of language proficiency is that it consists of such an expectancy...