listening skill and speaking skill, according language didactics, have close interaction in lingual communications. therefore, measuring listening comprehension without considering other language skills seems to be difficult. the present study is an effort to compare the effectiveness of oral and written multiple-choice listening tests for persian language learners. in fact, this study answers ...

Title of dissertation: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF THE ROLE OF DISCOURSE INFORMATION IN LANGUAGE PRODUCTION AND ACQUISITION Naho Orita, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Naomi Feldman Department of Linguistics This dissertation explores the role of discourse information in language production and language acquisition. Discourse information plays an important role in v...

This paper investigates the progression of narrative and psychological emotional development major character in Home They Brought her Warrior Dead by applying Halliday’s theory transitivity. Transitivity patterns are useful to study link between languages thought The will pave way understanding inner feelings widow, which concealed poet using different linguistic choices. In first two stanzas p...

Focusing on children’s production of the dative alternation in English, we examine whether children’s choices are influenced by the same factors that influence adults’ choices, and whether, like adults, they are sensitive to multiple factors simultaneously. We do so by using mixed-effect regression models to analyze child and child-directed datives extracted from the CHILDES corpus. Such models...

The framework of Finite-State Intersection Grammars employs a parsing technique according to which several finite-state automata are intersected to determine the output automaton. Implementation of the intersection parser has turned out to be a difficult task. Several problems in efficiency arise when disambiguation choices are based on long contexts with many don’t cares. We are concerned with...

I examine how discourse anaphoric uses of the definite pronoun it contrast with similar uses of the demonstrative pronoun thai. Their distinct contexts of use are characterized in terms of two contextual f ea tu re s -pe r s l s t ence o f g r a m m a t i cal s u b j e c t and p e r s i s t e n c e o f g r ,~mmat ica l f o rm-wh ich together demonstrate very clearly the interrelation among lexi...

We describe a method and a corresponding tool for grammarbased test-data generation (GBTG). The basic generation principle is to enumerate test data based on grammatical choices. However, generation is broken down into two phases to deal with context-sensitive properties in an efficient and convenient manner. The first phase enumerates test data (i.e., parse trees) with placeholders. The second...

This article aims to analyze the linguistic representation of transsexual women from Ceará about female transsexuality. To generate and collect data, I used online ethnography (ANDROUTSOPOULOS, 2008) through semi-structured interviews. In analysis, lexical-grammatical choices were considered in light system transitivity Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) category Incl...

This paper is a contribution to the discussion of the choices involved in implementing HPSG-based grammars and their consequences on the modularity and reusability of grammatical resources, a central issue in multi-lingual grammar development. Based on two examples from the English Resource Grammar (Flickinger et al., 2000), the treatment of unbounded dependencies and the analysis of optional a...