Hedging devices play a crucial role in mitigating claims and reducing directness academic writing. Their utilisation scholarly discourse facilitates tentativeness fosters effective communication. The present study investigates the use of hedging by Indonesian researchers soft sciences. dataset comprises 2,511,423 words from 400 research articles authored scholars. results demonstrate that field...

The world's languages draw on a common set of event components for their verb systems. Yet, these components are differentially distributed across languages. At what age do children begin to use language-specific patterns to narrow possible verb meanings? English-, Japanese-, and Spanish-speaking adults, toddlers, and preschoolers were shown videos of an animated star performing a novel manner ...

This article presents clustering experiments on German verbs: A statistical grammar model for German serves as the source for a distributional verb description at the lexical syntax–semantics interface, and the unsupervised clustering algorithm k-means uses the empirical verb properties to perform an automatic induction of verb classes. Various evaluation measures are applied to compare the clu...

How children acquire knowledge of verb inflection is a long-standing question in language acquisition research. In the present study, we test the predictions of some current constructivist and generativist accounts of the development of verb inflection by focusing on data from two Spanish-speaking children between the ages of 2;0 and 2;6. The constructivist claim that children's early knowledge...

The article presents a study on the lexico-grammar of genre ofEnglish legal-lay language (Tiersma 1999), using English subcorpus theCorIELLS corpus (Busso forthcoming). explores four grammaticalconstructions (in Goldberg 2006’s Construction Grammar sense): nominalisationsheading prepositional phrase attachments, modal verb constructions, participialreduced relative and passive constructions. Sp...

This talk discusses integrative motivation from the perspective of the socio-educational model of second language acquisition, and will focus on six topics. The first concerns the concept of motivation which can be shown to comprise at least 10 cognitive, affective and conative components. The second topic is the socio-educational model of second language acquisition. It is presented in two for...

In automatic speech recognition on mobile devices, very often what a user says strongly depends on the particular context he or she is in. The n-grams relevant to the context are often not known in advance. The context can depend on, for example, particular dialog state, options presented to the user, conversation topic, location, etc. Speech recognition of sentences that include these n-grams ...

We present an approach to building a verb lexicon compatible with WordNet but with explicitly stated syntactic and semantic information, using Levin verb classes to systematically construct lexical entries. By using verb classes we capture generalizations about verb behavior and reduce the effort needed to construct the lexicon. The syntactic frames for the verb classes are represented by a Lex...