Рассматриваются основные характеристики лингвистического корпуса в качестве инструмента обучения иностранному языку. Подробно анализируется проблема применения обучении языку на начальном этапе. Сравниваются позиции отечественных и зарубежных исследователей по данному вопросу. Выявляются трудности этапе возможные способы их преодоления. Предлагаются направления перспективных исследований, касаю...

linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with english as a foreign language, gender and english proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect english learning and its quality in iranian context. the present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general english tests (cloze test and recall t...

Linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with English as a foreign language, gender and English proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect English learning and its quality in Iranian context. The present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general English tests (cloze test and recall t...

This paper presents a systematic comparison of various measures of f0 range in female speakers of English and German. F0 range was analyzed along two dimensions, level (i.e., overall f0 height) and span (extent of f0 modulation within a given speech sample). These were examined using two types of measures, one based on "long-term distributional" (LTD) methods, and the other based on specific la...

This paper investigates the variation in cohesion across written and spoken registers. The same method and corpora were used as in Biber’s (1988) study on linguistic variation across speech and writing; however instead of focusing on 67 linguistic features that primarily operate at the word level, we compared 236 language and cohesion features at the textlevel. Variations in frequencies across ...

In the last decades, a wide range of automatic metrics that use linguistic knowledge has been developed. Some of them are based on lexical information, such as METEOR; others rely on the use of syntax, either using constituent or dependency analysis; and others use semantic information, such as Named Entities and semantic roles. All these metrics work at a specific linguistic level, but some re...

Customers’ satisfaction is one of the very important keys in ever challenging market. There are many approaches that have been used to evaluate customers satisfaction. This paper proposes an evaluation of customer satisfaction from the perceived service quality using fuzzy linguistic. A twenty three-item questionnaire was distributed to thirty four judges who being asked about the services prov...

There are numerous recent reports of low-level temporal asymmetries favouring the left hemisphere, and increasing speculation that the left hemisphere's relative superiority at linguistic processing may be related to these asymmetries. The present study sought to test this claim by assessing linguistic lateralization with the Fused Dichotic Words Test and visual temporal asymmetries with a late...