The motion events expressions in Chinese have been a controversial topic and few research on them from the developmental perspective. Therefore, based long-term tracking corpus of two Mandarin children SWK WMX their 13 months to 48 months, this paper studies lexicalization children’s process language acquisition reveal unique features event expressions. Research revealed that at age 3, began ex...

We present a Parameterized Action Representation (PAR) that provides a conceptual representation of different types of actions used to animate virtual human agents in a simulated 3D environment. These actions involve changes of state, changes of location (kinematic) and exertion of force (dynamic). PARs are hierarchical, parameterized structures that facilitate both visual and verbal expression...

English language teaching (ELT) in Iran has experienced a turbulent history reflecting an often dynamic context and changing attitudes toward English, yet framed within a discourse of tolerance rather than one of embrace, as this study is going to show. The discourse was much brighter before the Islamic Revolution and this study reveals that there were much fewer adverse policies toward the spr...

this study was framed on the theory of language socialisation and a systematic functional linguistic (sfl) approach. the aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary iranian english as second language (esl) postgraduate student in an american university four times (september/december, 2015 and march/september, 2016) over one year. the data were col...

The automatic processing of non-English clinical documents is massively hampered by the lack of publicly available medical language resources for training, testing and evaluating NLP components. We suggest sharing statistical models derived from access-protected clinical documents as a reasonable substitute and provide solutions for sentence splitting, tokenization and POS tagging of German cli...

Recent research shows that adult speakers of verbvs. satellite-framed languages (Talmy, 2000) express motion events in language-specific ways in speech (Slobin 1996, 2004) and co-verbal gestures (Duncan 2005; Kita & Özyurek 2003; McNeill 1992). Although such findings suggest cross-linguistic differences in the expression of events, little is still known about their implications for first langua...

This study was framed on the theory of Language Socialisation and a Systematic Functional Linguistic (SFL) approach. The aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary Iranian English as Second Language (ESL) postgraduate student in an American university four times (September/December, 2015 and March/September, 2016) over one year. The data were col...

A Projection Temporal Logic is discussed and some of its laws are given. After that, an executable temporal logic programming language, called Framed Tempura, is formalized. A minimal model-based approach for framing in temporal logic programming is presented. Since framing destroys monotonicity, canonical models – used to define the semantics of non-framed programs – are no longer appropriate....