Since Chomsky & Miller (1963) and Chomsky (1965), linguists have recognized that a grammatical sentence can be deemed as unacceptable for many extra-grammatical reasons, including memory limitations, context, and stylistic factors. More recently, evidence is mounting that sentences of moderate or even low acceptability can become more acceptable with repeated exposure (Hiramatsu, 1999; Snyder, ...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

It is well-known from psycholinguistic literature that the human language processing system exhibits preferences when sentence constituents are ambiguous with respect to their grammatical function. Generally, many theories assume that an interpretation towards the subject is preferred in such cases. Later disambiguations which contradict such a preference induce enhanced processing difficulty (...

The unique behaviors of emotional (or psychological) predicates have long been studied as a central issue in developing theoretical accounts for the interaction of lexical semantics and argument realization (cf. Talmy, Grammatical categories and the lexicon, 1985; Talmy, Typology and process in concept structuring, 2000; Croft, Surface subject choice of mental verbs, 1986; Dowty, Language 67: 5...

the most important and practical phase of analyzing the linguistic errors of second language learners is to find the solutions to decrease these errors. to that end, the present study examined translation strategy to decrease the number of grammatical and lexical errors of chinese language learners learning persian. twelve chinese language learners were asked to write a text in two stages. firs...

Cohesion and coherence have an important role in writing essays, both those that will write or become essays. Therefore this study aims to determine the use of cohesion KKN novel Penari Village. The object research is Village by Simpleman. subject sentence which contains type approach used a qualitative approach. A presents data form sentences. design collecting data, then grouped according typ...