the present paper aims to examine the role of frequency lexicon in assessing lexical proficiency of persian learners. addressing the frequency distribution pattern of persian words, the research which is conducted in corpus-based method studies the relationship between words and lexical proficiency as well as derives the frequency lexicon from persian corpus. to do so, formal and colloquial per...

This article compares lexical and grammatical abilities of a mental-age-matched sample of Italian preschoolers with Down syndrome (DS), specific language impairment (SLI), or typical development. Results showed that the children with DS or with SLI performed significantly worse than did the typically developing children. Although no significant differences emerged in lexical abilities and morph...

This paper presents a conditional random field-based approach for identifying speaker-produced disfluencies (i.e. if and where they occur) in spontaneous speech transcripts. We emphasize false start regions, which are often missed in current disfluency identification approaches as they lack lexical or structural similarity to the speech immediately following. We find that combining lexical, syn...

Research has shown that older adults have increased difficulty comprehending foreign-accented speech. As these studies only used behavioral measures, we exploited the fine-grained temporal resolution of EEG/ERPs to examine neural signatures foreign- and native-accented sentence comprehension in adults. Older adults, all normal-hearing monolingual English speakers, listened foreign Chinese-accen...

Objective: Quality assurance of large ontological systems such as SNOMED CT is an indispensable part of the terminology management lifecycle. We introduce a hybrid structural-lexical method for scalable and systematic discovery of novel anomalies in SNOMED CT. The structural component is based on shared isa relations to other concepts. The lexical component leverages shared words in description...

This study compared the effects of computer-mediated (CM) versus pen-and-paper (P&P) writing on written accuracy and feedback processing in tasks rewritten collaboratively following a pedagogical treatment two intact authentic classrooms. The involved 32 secondary education low-proficiency English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners descriptive texts receiving in-class training identificat...

The present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  Zand Institute of Higher Education in Shiraz, Iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced TOEFL test constructed by Education...

: This study aims to explore the relationship between syntactic and lexical complexity and also the relationship between different aspects of lexical complexity. To this end, speech monologs of 35 Iranian high-intermediate learners of English on three different tasks (i.e. argumentation, description, and narration) were analyzed for correlations between one measure of sy...

This paper presents a systematic review of relevant published studies on the influence L1 ESL students’ writing from year 2004 until 2021. attempts to address two research questions; i.e. what are effects caused by interference students' language and remedies overcome such errors in writing. In order do so, 15 single were chosen multiple academic platforms. These systematically reviewed finding...

Speech interface is often required in many application environments such as telephonebased information retrieval, car navigation systems, and user-friendly interfaces, but the low speech recognition rate makes it difficult to extend its application to new fields. Several approaches to increase the accuracy of the recognition rate have been researched by error correction of the recognition resul...