Drawing on recent developments in linguistic description and applied linguistics, it can be concluded that learning a language necessitates getting to know something and being able to do something with that knowledge: competence, and performance. Structural approach to language description attaches importance to the former; communicative approach to the latter. Appropriate classroom discours...

The increasing complexity of legal systems has many origins, which are worth a deeper analysis. This paper is an attempt to unveil the complexity in legal texts driven by structural, lexical and syntactical properties. Thereby we transferred established quantitative methods from structural network analysis and linguistics into the domain of legal text analysis. Based on 3 553 German laws, respe...

In the era of structural biology, it is necessary to apply efficient and effective tools in order to measure structural similarity between proteins. Although a great number of structural comparison methods have been developed, none of them gives an exact solution to the problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel method for structural similarity measurement of proteins based on language modeli...

conclusions the number of linguistic studies on language and speech therapy is more than that of the studies in which clinical data are used to study the theories and hypotheses. therefore, it is necessary to consider this area seriously and guide the studies toward the theories proposed in the related disorders. thus, attention must be paid to pragmatic and semantic domains of the disorder whi...

Disfluency detection is the task of recognizing structural metadata in spoken utterances. It has been the topic of several studies in computational linguistics and psycholinguistics. This paper motivates the need for automatic disfluency detection in a dialogue system and delineates some of the features that characterize a disfluent utterance.

September 3 – 7, 2007 International Conference on Engineering Education – ICEE 2007 How Language Learners Can Develop Communication Skills in English: An Analysis of the Structural and Interactional Aspects of Teleconferences in the IDEELS Telematics Simulation Project. Penny MacDonald Polytechnic University of Valencia, Department of Applied Linguistics (DIAAL Research Group), Camino de Vera, ...

The paper aims to return the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure examine application linguistic terminologies in Lacanian psychoanalysis and critique ideology by Slavoj Žižek. First, author examines Saussure’s his book Course General Linguistics. Then, differences between its original definitions their Žižek are compared. found that although French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan used v...

Discursive functions are shared across all languages, but each language uses different linguistic means to appropriately establish referential cohesion. Children’s mastery of this cohesion in narrative texts develops gradually and is influenced by development in syntax. Consequently, speakers can employ different strategies, and among the various structural configurations of arguments, some are...

This study examines the links between L2 linguistic knowledge, L2 listening strategy use, self-determined motivation, and L2 listening anxiety relative to L2 listening proficiency. Prior theoretical and empirical work suggests that these variables are interrelated in complex ways, and this hypothesis is tested here using structural equation modeling with a sample of 300 high school foreign lang...