In this paper—as a case study—we present systematic study of gender bias in machine translation with Google Translate. We translated sentences containing names occupations from Hungarian, language gender-neutral pronouns, into English. Our aim was to fair measure for by comparing the translations real-world oriented non-biased translator. When assessing bias, we used following reference points:...

Psych verbs cause problems for learners of English as a foreign language, in many other languages. The problem-causing aspect these is that the person who defined experiencer and has emotion sometimes used sentence case subject object. Some arise when an object English. Foreign language think intransitive verbs, from which -ed / -ing adjectives derived. As result, are also misunderstood. In our...

Contrastive  analysis  of  hypothesis  is  the  comparison  of  the linguistic system of two or more languages and it is based on the main difficulties in  learning  a  new  language  that  caused  by  interference  from  the  first  language. The present study intended to investigate the effect of contrastive analysis on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ knowledge of L2 adjectives. The questi...

abstractsince heubner's (1985) pioneering study, there have been many studies on (mis) use/ non-use of articles by l2 learners from article-less and article languages the present study investigated how persian l2 learners of english produce and interpret english definite descriptions and demonstrative descriptions it was assumed that definite and demonstrative descriptions share the same centra...

Abstract This paper studies the morpho-semantics of a particular class scalar focus adverbs called Superlative Modifiers (SMs). One key feature these is that they bear degree morphology, along with gradable adjectives involved. Most analyses SMs in market do not take into consideration semantic contributions their morphology. However, cross-linguistic facts strongly suggest morphological makeup...

The present study intended to investigate the effect of Error Analysis on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ knowledge of L2 adjectives. The question of this study followed the fact that whether Error Analysis has any effects on intermediate EFL learners’ knowledge of L2 adjectives, In order to find the answer of this question, this article considered some issues about Error Analysis and their ...

Despite their simple syntactic form, adjective-noun combinations seem to have no straightforward semantic method that parallels the simplicity of the syntax. This has led to the conventional belief that adjectives belong to a (semantically motivated) hierarchy. This has the consequence that a uniform treatment of adjectives is unattainable—without resorting to notions such as possible worlds, w...