this study is an attempt tofind the effect of four types of feedback(direct,underline,code,translation)on the writing performance of iranian learners ofjapanese as a foreign language.in this research,we have tried to suggest new ways of correcting students’writing through giving different kinds of feedback in the process of learning to write.the study focused on the accuracy of using prepositio...

Using Analogy to Model Spatial Language Use and Multimodal Knowledge Capture Kate Lockwood Language and knowledge capture are two skills that allow us to create structured representations of the physical world for reasoning and communication. Spatial prepositions are a form of specialized language that is used to relate two objects in space. In addition to communicating the static location of o...

This study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (DST) and cognitive linguistics (CL) insights into grammar instruction on EFL learners’ learning of English prepositions and learner autonomy. Sixty Iranian EFL learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. The 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...

Verbs in Arabic Language are used with specific prepositions; each preposition is called sila for the verb it precedes to. There different opinions of Qur’ānic exaggerators, commentators and rest scholars towards these prepositions when comes along non-dedicated language. Is originated or replaced other one, if not replaced, then, what does mean there? Sometimes many them term. two major parts ...

Prepositions are highly polysemous, and their variegated senses encode significant semantic information. In this paper we match each preposition’s complement and attachment and their interplay crucially to the geometry of the word vectors to the left and right of the preposition. Extracting such features from the vast number of instances of each preposition and clustering them makes for an effi...

This paper introduces a compositional semantics of locative prepositional phrases which is based on a vector space ontology. Model-theoretic properties of prepositions like monotonicity and conservativity are defined in this system in a straightforward way. These notions are shown to describe central inferences with spatial expressions and to account for the grammaticality of preposition modifi...

A less discussed point — though equally evident — is that Russian prefixes and prepositions cannot be unified as a class on the basis of their morphosyntactic characteristics. The theoretical aim of the present work is to resolve the apparent contradiction between the phonological unity and the morphosyntactic disunity of these two categories, by proposing a Stratal Optimality Theoretic approac...

A network was trained by back propagation to map locative expressions of the form "noun-preposition-noun" to a semantic representation, as in Cosic and Munro (1988). The network's performance was analyzed over several simulations with training sets in both English and German. Translation of prepositions was attempted by presenting a locative expression to a network trained in one language to ge...