Implicit discourse relation recognition is a challenging task in the natural language processing field, but important to many applications such as question answering, summarizat ion and so on. Previous research used either art ificially created implicit discourse relat ions with connectives removed from explicit relations or annotated implicit relat ions as training data to detect the possible ...

Two experiments explored the communicative bases of preschoolers' object appearance-reality (AR) errors. In Experiment 1, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds (N = 36) completed the AR test (with high- and low-deceptive objects), a control test with the same discourse structure but nondeceptive stimuli, and stimulus naming and memory tests. AR performance correlated positively with control (discourse) and n...

Grounded in sociocultural theory, collaboration has been recognized as a useful teaching method. In English teaching, while number of studies have examined the effectiveness on grammar, research pragmatic awareness is scarce. As such, this study explored how influenced, firstly, grammatical and and, secondly, error correction: two major components language competence. study, 32 Taiwanese junior...

The aim of this study was to investigate the pragmatic failure in English and Arabic students at UIN Alauddin Makassar's Faculty Adab Cultural Studies. data for were gathered through observation, distribution questionnaires form a discourse completeness test (DCT), interviews. Quantitative qualitative research collected research. This employed three statistical models or techniques: descriptive...

Young children often give the impression that they speak or listen from their own perspective, with little or no recognition of the linguistic information that a discourse partner might be using. In relation to discourse reference, children often demonstrate insensitivity to rules that determine the use of discourse pronouns (Karmiloff-Smith 1981). Frequently, discourse development has been exp...

the present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means for information highlighted by advanced iranian learners of english as a foreign language. the study focused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre-posing, it- and wh-clefts. after taking the nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. ...