Arabic syntax has yet to be studied in detail from a corpus-based perspective. The copula k?na (‘be’), functions also as an auxiliary, creating periphrastic tense–aspect constructions; but the literature on these is far exhaustive. To analyse within one-million word Corpus of Contemporary Arabic, part-of-speech tagging (using novel, targeted enhancements previously described program which impro...

The present accent rating study investigates the interaction between accent strength and grammatical correctness on perceived accentedness. German native (L1) listeners rated German sentences produced by L1 and non-native (L2) speakers. Sentences either contained a grammatical error or were grammatically correct. Results showed that grammatical correctness affected the accent rating of sentence...

BACKGROUND Representations of objects and actions in everyday speech are usually materialized as nouns and verbs, two grammatical classes that constitute the core elements of language. Given their very distinct roles in singling out objects (nouns) or referring to transformative actions (verbs), they likely rely on distinct brain circuits. METHOD We tested this hypothesis by conducting networ...

We present a first, broad-scale typology of extended reported speech, examples lexicalised or grammaticalised speech constructions without regular quotation meaning. These typically include meanings that are conceptually close to such as think want , but also interpretations do not appear have an obvious conceptual relation with talking, cause begin . Reported may therefore reflect both concept...

in a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. they negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. thus, not only does social life depend...

Understanding a text, whether by a human being or by a computer, implies that units of meanings be identified in the text and that rules composing these units and the corresponding meaning units provide the complete meaning of the text. Such a statement raises many fundamental questions we shall not be concerned with (e.g. What is meaning?). We will limit ourselves to lexical and grammatical pr...

language users benefit from special phonetic tools in order to communicate linguistic information as well as different emotional aspects and paralinguistic information through daily conversation. having functions in conveying semantic information to listeners, prosodic features form the essential part of linguistic behavour, manipulating  them potentially can play an important role in transmitt...

Language users benefit from special phonetic tools in order to communicate linguistic information as well as different emotional aspects and paralinguistic information through daily conversation. Having functions in conveying semantic information to listeners, prosodic features form the essential part of linguistic behavour, manipulating  them potentially can play an important role in transmitt...

Abstract The theories and methods in corpus linguistics (CL) have had an impact on numerous areas applied linguistics. However, the interface between CL multimodal speech-gesture studies remains underexplored. One fundamental question is whether it possible, even appropriate, to apply paradigms established based textual data data. To explore this, we examine how can assist investigating lexico-...