Good command of idioms and collocations is an important ability of any natural language speaker. This ability needs to be developed not only in foreign language learners but also in people wishing to enhance their linguistic competence in the native language. Since systematic description of idiomaticity is still a very difficult issue and linguistic resources focused on idioms and collocations ...

Lexical processing deficits in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have been postulated to arise as sequelae of their grammatical deficits (either directly or via compensatory mechanisms) and vice versa. We examined event-related potential indices of lexical processing in children with DLD (n = 23) and their typically developing peers (n = 16) using a picture-word matching parad...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the validity of measuring grammatical diversity with a specifically designed Lexical Diversity Assessment Tool (LDAT). A secondary objective is to use LDAT to determine if the level of difficulty assigned to English as a Second Language (ESL) texts corresponds to increases in grammatical, lexical, and temporal diversity. Other methods of lexical diversit...

This research showed that appropriate input and suitable contexts for interaction among students can lead to successful  second language acquisition (SLA). This study based on Swain's (2005) notion of collaborative dialogue, aimed to study whether EFL learners participating in negotiation of meaning based tasks collaborate with each other and, if so, to investigate the role of this behavior in ...

We present a reasoning system for inferring dimension information in spreadsheets. This system can be used to check the consistency of spreadsheet formulas and thus is able to detect errors in spreadsheets. Our approach is based on three static analysis components. First, the spatial structure of the spreadsheet is analyzed to infer a labeling relationship among cells. Second, cells that are us...

This paper deals with two different approaches in programming sphere, and joins them in one entity through its practical part. One approach is context searching that is applied on the second approach, functional graphic library wxHaskell that is designed and implemented within Eclipse development environment through the plug-in extension. As searching object lies at the wxHaskell documentation,...