Research on multiword clusters (chunks) is based on the assumption that native speakers use plenty of chunks in their everyday language and they are considered as fluent speakers of language. Therefore the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of using chunks on speaking fluency of Iranian EFL learners. In the first phase of the study, the students of two intermediate classes s...

Microlearning has been predicted as a promising learning trend to cope with the rapidly changing world. The technology-mediated short form of also received language partitioners’ and researchers’ interest in adopting microlearning education. Notably, most existing studies focused on vocabulary or structural instead presenting micro-contents micro-activities holistically. This study proposes str...

The multiword chunking is otherwise thought of as the shallow parsing technique which identifies the multiword chunks and their interdependencies. The paper presents the proposed solution to the problem. Here we have designed the model of the proposed syntactic processor which uses lexical knowledge base of verbs for identifying intra chunk boundaries and finally forming the inter dependencies ...

This investigation aimed to analyze the use of turn-takings, organization adjacency pairs that are practised in Pakistani drama. Drawing on framework presented by Young (2011), this research has provided insight into relationship between conversational and situational features which conversations were performed, figure out purpose operating a conversation specific situation, especially entertai...

<p>The present study aimed at investigating the effects of learning lexical chunks on writing performance EFL Chinese learners Grade three students in Middle school, and same time taking into consideration examining participants’ use their knowledge them. After two rounds action research, through questionnaire, test, interview classroom observation data analysis, author found that: 1. The...

Recent work has proposed the use of an extracted tree grammar as the basis for treebank analysis and search queries, in which queries are stated over the elementary trees, which are small chunks of syntactic structure. However, this work was lacking in two crucial ways. First, it did not allow for including lexical properties of tokens in the search. Second, it did not allow for using the deriv...

Pylkkänen (2001) argues that there are two types of applicatives, which have different lexical semantics. I will show that this difference underlies the contrast between (1) and (2), and argue that the two applicatives have different syntactic ‘phase’ structures (Chomsky 1999, 2000). Phases are chunks of syntactic structure that are sent off to PF and LF for interpretation before the derivation...

The ability to comprehend and produce phrasal verbs, as lexical chunks or groups of words which are commonly found together, is an important part of language learning. This study investigates the effect of ‘conceptual metaphor awareness’, as a newly developed technique in Cognitive Linguistics, on learning phrasal verbs by Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To meet this objective, two intact ho...

A Bayesian model of continuous speech recognition is presented. It is based on Shortlist (D. Norris, 1994; D. Norris, J. M. McQueen, A. Cutler, & S. Butterfield, 1997) and shares many of its key assumptions: parallel competitive evaluation of multiple lexical hypotheses, phonologically abstract prelexical and lexical representations, a feedforward architecture with no online feedback, and a lex...

Abstract By examining and comparing the linguistic patterns in a self-built corpus of Chinese-English translations produced by WeChat Translate , latest online machine translation app from most popular social media platform (WeChat) China, this study explores such questions as whether or not to what extent simplification normalization (hypothesized Translation Universals) exhibit themselves the...