With this research we investigated the real-time electrophysiological correlates of noun–verb agreement checking during the comprehension of correct passive sentences in French. Event-related potentials were acquired while participants read passive sentences that contained covert (singular, masculine) or overt (plural, feminine) noun–verb agreement. Results show that the processing of overtly o...

How do people respond to voice user interfaces (VUIs) that use first-person pronouns as opposed to those that use thepassive voice? We addressed this question in the context of a phone-based auction via a 2 (first person vs. passive voice) X 2 (recorded vs. synthesized speech) between-participants experiment (N=48). There were significant cross-over interactions with respect to user relaxation,...

During semi-automatic translation of Princeton English WordNet (PWN) into Korean verbs, we noticed that the verbs of accusativity/inaccusativity alternation in English were mapped to two or more Korean verbs of different morpho-syntactic features and thus different senses. These mismatches in mapping show the need for reconstructing the lexical semantic structure of PWN for Korean verb wordnet,...

Grammar has an important role to build a communication process, it is used make clear statement about the time of verb occurs. This research aimed find out grammatical errors in terms tense, active, and passive voice abstracts translation abtracts from Indonesian language English produced by Google Translate. Descriptive qualitative method was as this research. The population study twenty that ...

Diacritics convey vowel sounds in Arabic, allowing accurate word pronunciation. Mostly, modern Arabic is printed nondiacritized. Otherwise, diacritics appear either only on homographic words when not disambiguated by surrounding text or on all words as in religious or educational texts. In an eye-tracking experiment, we examined sentence processing in the absence of diacritics and when diacriti...

This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. A corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. The corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. The finding...