Lewis (1993) recognized significance of word combinations including collocations by presenting lexical approach. Because of the crucial role of collocation in vocabulary acquisition, this research set out to evaluate the rate of collocations in Iranian EFL learners' writing production across L1 and L2. In addition, L1 interference with L2 collocational use in the learner' writing samples was st...

In lexicalized grammatical formalisms, it is possible to separate lexical category assignment from the combinatory processes that make use of such categories, such as parsing and realization. We adapt techniques from supertagging — a relatively recent technique that performs complex lexical tagging before full parsing (Bangalore and Joshi, 1999; Clark, 2002) — for chart realization in OpenCCG, ...

Our study looks at the effect of lexical frequency, lexical categories and phrase boundaries on syllable duration in Vietnamese. We use durational data to shed light on the status of some ambiguous lexical categories such as kinship terms and positional nouns, and to gather additional evidence on the behaviour of some verbs that have grammaticalized homophones. Our results show that high freque...

Cross-linguistic research has shown that boundaries for lexical categories differ from language to language. The aim of this study is to explore these differences between languages in relation to the categorization differences within a language. Monolingual Dutch(N=400) and French-speaking (N=300) Belgian adults provided lexical category judgments for three lexical categories that are roughly e...

This paper presents lexical attraction models of language, in which the only explicitly represented linguistic knowledge is the likelihood of pairwise relations between words. This is in contrast with models that represent linguistic knowledge in terms of a lexicon, which assigns categories to each word, and a grammar, which expresses possible combinations in terms of these categories. The word...

The current study evaluates how lexical choice impacts task performance in dyads tasked with building an object together without a shared visual environment. Our analyses suggest that, while interpersonal lexical convergence in target linguistic categories promotes successful communication, success does not require convergence in all categories. In the absence of shared visual workspaces and fa...