The paper describes an experimental graphical hu-man/computer interface. It shows a new approach to machine translation for monolinguals, which supports interactive foreign-language generation and post-editing. By making functional choices using bilingual menus, Japanese users can interactively generate short English sentences containing complex auxiliary verb groups like \might have done", \ou...

The current study addresses the extent of phonological planning during spontaneous sentence production. Previous work shows that at articulation, phonological encoding occurs for entire phrases, but encoding beyond the initial phrase may be due to the syntactic relevance of the verb in planning the utterance. I conducted three experiments to investigate whether phonological planning crosses mul...

English was long considered the only language to possess Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE), a process in which a verb phrase, identified in many standard accounts with the vP, goes missing under identity with the vP of an antecedent clause. An example of VPE in English is given in (1), where the elements struck through are not pronounced. A schematization of the relevant part of the structure is given...

Abstract Task-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. The present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. To this purpose, an Oxford Placement Test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. The selecte...

Purpose: This study was designed to examine the early usage patterns of multiple grammatical functions of DO in children with and without SLI. Children’s use of this plurifunctional form is informative for evaluation of theoretical accounts of the deficit in SLI. Methods: Spontaneous uses of multiple functions of DO were analyzed in language samples from 89 children, 37 children with SLI age 5;...

This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. A corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. The corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. The finding...

Abstract This paper examines the use of modal auxiliaries can and could in speech acts produced by university students English. Its aim is to explore syntactic patterns, semantic features pragmatic functions utterances containing / Corpus Czech Students’ Spoken English . Taking account factors, including broader linguistic extralinguistic context, analysis attempts identify illocutionary forces...

This study examined the role of the native language (L1) transfer in a non-native language (L2) acquisition of the there-insertion construction at the syntax-semantics interface. Specifically, the study investigated if Mandarin EFL learners would make overgeneralization errors in the situation where an L1 argument structure constitutes a superset of its L2 counterpart. Verbs of existence and ap...

Opinion extraction about products from customer reviews is becoming an interesting area of research. Customer reviews about products are nowadays available from blogs and review sites. Also tools are being developed for extraction of opinion from these reviews to help the user as well merchants to track the most suitable choice of product. Therefore efficient method and techniques are needed to...