Most previous studies on negation have generally only focused on sentential negation (not), reporting cost and delay associated with computing its meaning. In an ERP study (Experiment 1), we make use of the negation-sensitivity of negative polarity items (NPIs) and examine the time course of processing different kinds of negation. Four kinds of NPI-licensing environments were examined: the nega...

AMBER is a model of first language acquisition that improves its performance through a process of error recovery. The model is implemented as an adaptive production system that introduces new condition-action rules on the basis of experience. AMBER starts with the ability to say only one word at a time, but adds rules for ordering goals and producing grammatical morphemes, based on comparisons ...

In contemporary aspect-oriented languages, pointcuts are usually specified directly in terms of the structure of the source code. The definition of such low-level pointcuts requires aspect developers to have a profound understanding of the entire application’s implementation and often leads to complex, fragile, and hard to maintain pointcut definitions. To resolve these issues, we present an as...

Since the beginning of software development, making existing software conformant to new demands has always been an important topic. The extension of software by new functionality is facilitated or even made possible by software refactoring: improving the structure of software without changing its behaviour in order to implement additional functionality more easily. Unfortunately, the transforma...

Interaction research that has investigated the relationship between language production and second language (L2) development has largely focused on learners’ immediate responses to interactional feedback. However, other speech production processes might help account for the beneficial relationship between interaction and L2 development. The current study examines whether syntactic priming— the ...

This paper describes the annotation process and linguistic properties of the Persian syntactic dependency treebank. The treebank consists of approximately 30,000 sentences annotated with syntactic roles in addition to morpho-syntactic features. One of the unique features of this treebank is that there are almost 4800 distinct verb lemmas in its sentences making it a valuable resource for educat...

Processability Theory, a component of the cognitive approach to second language acquisition tries to enhance understanding of how the interlanguage knowledge systems can be restructured by second language learners (Pienemann, 1998, 2015). The present study intended to run a similar investigation into the syntactic development of Right-Brain and Left-Brain Dominant Iranian EFL learners based on ...

The present study aims to compare the language development of normal Persian and Persian-Turkish preschoolers using PDSS as a morpho-syntactic measure determine if bilingualism has any effects on development. Subjects included 30 Persian- Turkish from middle social class in three age groups 37-46, 47-56, 57-66 months old. Language background ASQ II questionnaires were completed by children’s pa...