How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?

How Much Nature Do They Use? How Much Nature Do They Have?

1904 Franklin Street 6th Floor • Oakland, CA 94612 • voice.510.444.3041 • fax.510.444.3191 • [email protected] • www.RedefiningProgress.org This Ecological Footprints of Nations 2002 issue brief reports on the ecological impact of 146 nations. These countries include nearly 100 percent of the world’s population. The issue brief shows to what extent a nation’s resource consumption can be suppor...

Cataract: how much surgery do we have to do?

Statistical MT Systems Revisited: How much Hybridity do they have?

The statistical approach to MT started about twenty-five years ago and has now been widely accepted as an alternative to the classical approach with manually designed rules. Among the attractive properties of the statistical approach is its capability to learn the translation models automatically from a (sufficiently) large amount of sourcetarget sentence pairs. Thus the need for the manual des...

How much do you believe?

This paper responds to a number of criticisms of Dempster-Shafer theory made by Judea Pearl. He criticises Dempster-Shafer belief for not obeying the laws of Bayesian belief," however, these laws lead to well-known problems in the face of ignorance, and seem unreasonably restrictive. It is argued that it is not reasonable to expect a measure of belief to obey Pearl's sandwich principle. The sta...

How Do Pauses Reveal Linguistic Plans by L2 Learners of Chinese?

This study explores L2 learners’ linguistic plans through silent and filled pauses, such as “uh”. Seven native speakers and seven American learners of Chinese participated in this study. They produced speech naturally on pre-provided topics. One minute and fifteen seconds of speech on a single topic produced by each participant was used for analysis in the present research. First, the distribut...