Chinese verb separation is a grammatical construction in which bimorphemic compound separates and expands into phrase. For example, to say “sang one song”, must insert the aspect marker le classifier phrase yī shǒu between chàng gē ‘sing-song’ as (sing-LE-one-classifier-song). Adult second language (L2) learners face at least three problems related acquiring separation: patterns are complex num...

The neurolinguistic approach (NLA) is an intensive sentence-based pedagogy designed specifically for low-proficiency learners. It places a premium on orality and the development of both internal external grammars through project-based literacy loop. present study employed pretest–posttest control group design to investigate effect NLA conveniently sampled pre-intermediate EFL learners’ implicit...

This paper reviews and summarizes six diier-ent types of extra-grammatical phenomena and their corresponding recovery principles at the syntactic level, and describes some techniques used to deal with four of them completely within an Extended GLR parser (EGLR). Partial solutions to the remaining two by the EGLR parser are also discussed. The EGLR has been implemented.

The question of whether it is possible to characterise grammatical knowledge in probabilistic terms is central to determining the relationship of linguistic representation to other cognitive domains. We present a statistical model of grammaticality which maps the probabilities of a statistical model for sentences in parts of the British National Corpus (BNC) into grammaticality scores, using va...

0. Introduction The whisper of “does that sound ok to you?” is a familiar sound to most linguists: we often hear it in the audience when a presenter supports a theoretical point using a judgment of grammaticality or ungrammaticality, and someone in the audience disagrees with the judgment. In recent years a growing number of researchers have investigated the use of introspective judgments under...

This paper describes our approach to the 2016 QATS quality assessment shared task. We trained three independent Random Forest classifiers in order to assess the quality of the simplified texts in terms of grammaticality, meaning preservation and simplicity. We used the language model of Google-Ngram as feature to predict the grammaticality. Meaning preservation is predicted using two complement...

Overpassivisation, a phenomenon in which passive morphology is applied to intransitive verbs, common feature the interlanguage of L2 English learners. This study examines overpassivisation among L1 Malay ESL tertiary students concerning type verb and proficiency level. A total 499 higher educational institutions Malaysia completed grammaticality judgment test involving items with unaccusative u...

Informal judgments of sentence acceptability have long been the primary source of evidence about grammaticality in syntax, and have been controversial just as long. In the past decade, there has been growing interest in collecting and analyzing acceptability judgments according to the formal protocols of experimental psycholinguistics, an approach sometimes called experimental syntax. This arti...