The overall rich body of literature dealing with first language acquisition has been concerned, to a very large extent, with the unpacking of the notion “acquisition” into a set of simpler, smaller notions. This unpacking should eventually lead us to understanding smaller problems and hopefully, eventually build into the larger picture of language acquisition altogether. In this brief survey, I...

В публикации рассматриваются особенности употребления идеологемы «Русский путь» в современном русском языке на материале контекстов основного и газетного корпусов Национального корпуса русского языка. извлеченных контекстах проанализирован план выражения (рассмотрены орфографические варианты ее выражения) содержания (выявлена семантика с учетом синтагматики контекста парадигматики политического...

Research in the field of automatic analysis of language and machine translation has a long tradition at the University of Saarbrücken. In the late 1950s, a first attempt was made at the Institute of Applied Mathematics to develop a system for the automatic translation of Latin sentences (taken from a secondary school textbook) into German. In the early 1960s, a small group of researchers and st...

This paper describes the Yandex School of Data Analysis Russian-English system submitted to the ACL 2014 Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation shared translation task. We start with the system that we developed last year and investigate a few methods that were successful at the previous translation task including unpruned language model, operation sequence model and the new reparame...

This study investigated the perceptual properties of second language learners in acquiring second language phonemes. The case where the relation between two phonemes of a second language and those of a native language changes according to following vowels was studied. The perceptual properties of Russians with regards to Japanese fricatives were examined. In the perception test, the confusion o...

In the context of the polyparadigmatic system of higher education, the noospheric psychological-pedagogical paradigm is considered, on its basis a lingvodidactic model is developed for the formation of professional-communicative competence (PCC) in Russian-language business communication among foreign students. The research focuses on the basic principles of the noospheric paradigm, which procl...

Aspect is undoubtedly the most capricious grammatical category of the Russian language. It has often been asserted as a mystery accessible only to native speakers, leaving all the others lost in its apparently infinite clutter. Recent work in cognitive linguistics has tried to bring order to the seeming chaos of the Russian aspectual system. But these approaches have not been operationalized so...