There is a long-standing debate about the principles and mechanisms that constrain the combinatorial properties of affixes, in particular of English suffixes. One group of scholars argues for the existence of lexical strata with strong restrictions holding between the different strata. This view is disputed by scholars who claim that it is selectional restrictions of individual suffixes that ar...

this paper examines the semantic contribution of -?r and -andeh suffixes in persian based on lieber’s (2004) lexical semantic representation. this framework using six semantic features ([material], [dynamic], [location], [ieps] , [b] and [ci] and a principle called coordination principle studies the semantic contribution of lexical items including affixes and their functions in compounding, der...

The current study, setting a two-fold goal, attempted to see whether the preemptive focus on form (FonF) under either planned or unplanned conditions could contribute to increasing lexical diversity in written narratives and, second, to find whether there was a trade-off between the lexical diversity and accuracy. To this end, 32 beginner learners were selected following a Quick Oxford Placemen...

0 Introduction The canonical word order of English is generally taken to be SVO, where S and O are assumed to be lexical, i.e., non-pronominal (cf. Lambrecht 1987), as in (1) below. 2 (1) The news coverage showed all the, you know, the guys who didn't get hurt coming home. In the example in 1 we see that the lexical NP the news coverage is the subject of the sentence. While this sentence looks ...

The present study examined the effects of using automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology on oral complexity in a flipped English as Foreign Language (EFL) course. A total 160 undergraduates were enrolled 14-week quasi-experiment. experimental group (EG) and control (CG) taught with approach, but EG students needed to undertake an additional pre-class task ASR technology. In each unit, all ...

We propose a CWSD (Combined Word Sense Disambiguation) algorithm for the automatic annotation of structured and semi-structured data sources. Rather than being targeted to textual data sources like most of the traditional WSD algorithms found in the literature, our algorithm can exploit information coming from the structure of the sources together with the lexical knowledge associated with the ...

The present study investigated the potential of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) for learning by manipulating cognitive task complexity based on related models and hypotheses. essays written 59 Chinese postgraduate EFL students from different subject areas were analysed with reference to complexity, accuracy, fluency (CAF). Results showed that had no significant effect learners’ l...

This study examines the language difficulty of original version and rewritten The Time Machine from perspective lexical complexity, syntactic semantic complexity. We aim to answer following two research questions: (1) Is there a significant difference between Machine? If yes, in what ways? (2) well-targeted at its intended readers? data consisted three corpora, Machine, version, passages Englis...

this paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. the aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in english and published in england and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in persian from iranian publications. for this purpose, the frequency of occu...