Completely data-driven grammar training is prone to over-fitting. Human-defined word class knowledge is useful to address this issue. However, the manual word class taxonomy may be unreliable and irrational for statistical natural language processing, aside from its insufficient linguistic phenomena coverage and domain adaptivity. In this paper, a formalized representation of function word subc...

Abstract Knowledge about Language (KaL) is an important part of L1 language education around the world. A controversial KaL grammatical or syntactic knowledge, i.e., knowledge form, meaning and use sentences phrases. In current international discourse on grammar teaching, principally motivated by desire to enhance students’ literacy development, befitting communicative turn in mother tongue fol...

Chinese character structure has often been described as representing a kind of grammar, but the notion of character grammar has hardly been explored. Patterns in character element reduplication are particularly grammar-like, displaying discrete combinatoriality, binarity, phonology-like final prominence, and potentially the need for symbolic rules (X→XX). To test knowledge of these patterns, Ch...

Dynamic assessment (DA) which is rooted in Vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural theory involves the integration of instruction and assessment in a dialectical way to achieve two main purposes: enhancing learners' development and understanding about their learning potential. However, the feasibility and appropriateness of mediation are two main concerns of DA. The former is concerned with the applica...

The current research was an effort to study the interaction of gender with text enhancement and meta-cognitive grammar instruction on learning and recall of English grammar. To this end, two groups of students consisting of 51 learners from both genders were formed. The participants were 51 male and 51 female learners. The 51 participants of each gender were further divided into two groups. The...

This demonstration presents the LinGO Grammar Matrix grammar customization system: a repository of distilled linguistic knowledge and a web-based service which elicits a typological description of a language from the user and yields a customized grammar fragment ready for sustained development into a broad-coverage grammar. We describe the implementation of this repository with an emphasis on h...

Generally, speech recognition engines can employ two different grammar methods, rule and dictation, to recognize an utterance. The purpose of these grammars is to constrain the search space in a way that anticipates the speaker’s utterance. The research described in this paper attempts to maintain the accuracy of a rule grammar without limiting the speaker to rigorous phraseology. Latent Semant...

In Order and Structure I have two main goals. First, I argue that the grammar should be viewed as an incremental left-to-right structure building system, and that this solves a number of problems in constituent structure. Second, I reassess the relationship between linguistic knowledge and language processing, and argue that mental systems for grammar and processing can be viewed as identical. ...

The current research was an effort to study the interaction of gender with text enhancement and meta-cognitive grammar instruction on learning and recall of English grammar. To this end, two groups of students consisting of 51 learners from both genders were formed. The participants were 51 male and 51 female learners. The 51 participants of each gender were further divided into two groups. The...