the present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on efl learners’ reading comprehension. eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  zand institute of higher education in shiraz, iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced toefl test constructed by education...

This chapter proposes some improvements on a method for eliciting speech errors, the so-called SLIP technique, including the use of multi-level logistic regression for data analysis. This is demonstrated in an experimental test of a new theory of self-monitoring as the main cause of lexical bias in phonological speech errors.

In verbal communication, the primary purpose of which is to convey and understand messages, speakers need to make intelligible utterances. The intelligibility of an utterance depends on the sentence structure, discourse, and the vocabulary usage. In foreign-language utterances, “errors” can reduce the intelligibility. The correct and appropriate use of vocabulary is essential for successful mes...

This paper presents our recent work on period disambiguation, the kernel problem in sentence boundary identification, with the maximum entropy (Maxent) model. A number of experiments are conducted on PTB-II WSJ corpus for the investigation of how context window, feature space and lexical information such as abbreviated and sentence-initial words affect the learning performance. Such lexical inf...

We investigated phonologic production in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) on a repetition task. AD patients produced significantly more speech errors than age-matched controls. AD patients' errors, unlike those of controls, resulted in the transformation of real words into pseudowords, occurred disproportionately in word-initial positions, and were not influenced by the p...

This paper reports the first results of an on-going research on evaluation of Machine Translation quality. The starting point for this work was the framework of ISLE (the International Standards for Language Engineering), which provides a classification for evaluation of Machine Translation. In order to make a quantitative evaluation of translation quality, we pursue a more consistent, finegrai...

This paper describes an experiment eliciting spoonerisms by using the so-called SLIP technique. The purpose of the experiment was to provide a further test of the hypothesis that self-monitoring of inner speech is a major source of lexical bias ([1; 10; 11; 14]. This is a follow-up on an earlier experiment in which subjects were explicitly prompted after each response to make a correction in ca...

The present study examines the role of the relative transparency of Portuguese and Spanish orthographies in schoolchildren’s word recognition procedures. Both Portuguese and Spanish may be considered as transparent orthographies. However, mappings at the grapheme–phoneme level are more consistent in Spanish than in Portuguese. Four groups of Portuguese and Spanish children from grades 1, 2, 3, ...

Models of lexical ambiguity resolution differ mainly with respect to the role played by context in lexical access. In my paper I focus on two opposing views: those of autonomous access models (non-context-oriented) and selective access models (context-oriented). I analyse two types of situations of: a. the activation of a wrong meaning of an ambiguous word unpredictable from both models and b. ...

The present study investigated EFL teachers’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback (CF), their CF-provision practices across elementary and intermediate levels, and their beliefs-practices correspondence. To this end, the researchers conducted a semi-structured interview with the teachers and went on an overall forty-hour observation of their classrooms across both levels. The findings reveale...