This project investigates the relationship between lexical semantics and causative morphology in the acquisition of causative/inchoative-related verbs in English as a foreign language by Iranian speakers. Results of translation and picture judgment task show although L2 learners have largely acquired the correct lexico-syntactic classification of verbs in English, they were constrained by ...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies have indicated a link between speech-language and literacy development. To add to this body of knowledge, we investigated whether lexical and grammatical skills from toddler to early school age are related to reading competence in adolescence. METHODS Twenty-three typically developing children were followed from age 1;6 to 13;6 (years;months). Parental checklists an...

The paper describes the application of artificial neural networks for corpus analysis which consists of intelligent mechanisms of analysis and recognition of word clusters and their meaning. The task of analyzing a corpus of academic articles was resolved with probabilistic neural networks. A review of selected issues is carried out with regards to computational approaches to language modeling ...

In this paper, we apply text classification techniques to prove how well translated texts obey linguistic conventions of the target language measured in terms of registers, which are characterised by particular distributions of lexico-grammatical features according to a given contextual configuration. The classifiers are trained on German original data and tested on comparable English-to-German...

We present a data-driven approach to investigate intra-textual variation by combining entropy and surprisal. With this approach we detect linguistic variation based on phrasal lexico-grammatical patterns across sections of research articles. Entropy is used to detect patterns typical of specific sections. Surprisal is used to differentiate between more and less informationally-loaded patterns a...

Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are crucial lexico-semantic units in any language. However, most work on MWEs has been focused on standard monolingual corpora. In this work, we examine MWE usage on Twitter an inherently multilingual medium with an extremely short average text length that is often replete with grammatical errors. In this work we present a new graph based, language agnostic method f...

Disciplinary variation in language use is one of the focal topics academic discourse research. This paper critically reviews extant literature studies on close relationship between and disciplinarity, an attempt to clarify different perspectives, both theoretical methodological, exploring discipline-specific nature discourses. points out that previous mainly adopted a form-first approach analyz...

Kompetensi gramatikal anak umur 3,6 tahun: Studi kasus. Pemerolehan tata bahasa tidak selalu mulus tanpa kesalahan. Sangat sering anak-anak menghasilkan ucapan yang ditemukan dalam orang dewasa dan dianggap sebagai Kesalahan ini dapat diperbaiki, yaitu, terus mengulangi kesalahan sama meskipun koreksi oleh berulang kali diberikan. Penelitian tentang kompetensi selama difokuskan pada jenis dilak...

Analyses of linguistic corpora have revealed that natural language is to a very large extent based on (semi-)preconstructed phrases. Drawing on corpus-based approaches to the description of such lexico-grammatical patterns in language use, the present study puts into perspective the question of why one and the same lexical item occurs in different patterns. The question of pattern selection (i....