Abstract Multiword units of language, known as formulaic sequences, are pervasive and essential in communication ( Wray, 2008 ). Although issues related to formulaicity have been under investigation a number research studies (e.g. Conklin & Schmitt, ; Wood, 2006 ), the present study is different investigating functions sequences oral language production young learners context English foreig...

They were representatives of the Tatar intelligentsia, born in 1880-90s. The pre-revolutionary world with unique urban everyday life early 20th century was already lost, but it occupied a central place memoirs that period. Memoirs and other records native city Troitsk, Orenburg province, teacher Habib Zaini (1890-1967) also continue this trend. In his notes, he wrote about Troitsk its inhabitan...

We consider the functions that formulae perform in two types of written texts which maintain close links to oral forms: Old English epic poetry and blogs. Five oralityrelated functions of formulae are identified in both datasets: discourse-structuring, filler, epithetic, gnomic, and tonic. A sixth type of formulaic function, theacronymic, necessarily tied to the written medium, is also found in...

This paper presents a tool for extracting and normalizing temporal expressions in SMS messages in order to automatically fill in an electronic calendar. The extraction process is based on a library of finite-state transducers that identify temporal structures and annotate the components needed for the time normalization task. An initial evaluation puts recall at 0.659 and precision at 0.795.

Tradition Medicines as the name implies have been a cultural age long healing remedy practiced over the year and improved by casual and unformulated experiments, or in some case are totally forgotten with the passing away of the partition in cases where record have not been kept especially skin and bone related cancers with the use of traditional herbal formula and cultural approaches that need...