the main purpose of this study was to determine which correlate, perceived motor competence or motor skill competence, best predicts girls' physical activity behavior.a sample of 352 girls (mean age=8.7, sd=0.3 yr) participated in this study. to assess motor skill competence and perceived motor competence, each child completed the test of gross motor development-2 and physical ability sub-scale...

This paper describes a machine translation architecture that integrates the use el' examples for flexible, idiomatic translations with the use o1' linguistic rules for broad coverage and grammatical acctu'acy. We have implemented a prototype for English-to-Japanese translation, and our ewfluation shows lhat tile system has good translation quality, and only requires reasonable computational res...

The main purpose of this paper is to throw some light on applied strategies at an idiomatic expressional level in a contrastive analysis framework by investigating the cultural-bound Brida novel Paulo Coelho from English translation into Persian. It worthy point out that theoretical present based Baker’s (2011) model rendering expressions. Further, within text, there are certain comparisons whi...

This paper introduces my research in physical interactive design with my “GRIP MAESTRO” electroacoustic performance interface. It then discusses the considerations involved in creating intuitive software mappings of emotive performative gestures such that they are idiomatic not only of the sounds they create but also of the physical nature of the interface itself.

In this paper, we present a hybrid approach to align single words, compound words and idiomatic expressions from bilingual parallel corpora. The objective is to develop, improve and maintain automatically translation lexicons. This approach combines linguistic and statistical information in order to improve word alignment results. The linguistic improvements taken into account refer to the use ...

The role of sensory-motor components in language processing is a central topic in cognitive neuroscience. Recent studies showed that the processing of action words recruits cortical motor regions involved in the planning and execution of the described actions. However, it remains unclear to what extent the abstract versus concrete nature of the described motion modulates the activation of premo...

This article examines idiomatic expressions as sources of both regularity and irregularity in language. Some morphological, lexical, syntactical, and semantical characteristics of idioms are discussed. It is shown how a lexical licensing mechanism, which is formulated within a formal grammar framework, can deal with the data. After that, this proposal is extended to the phenomenon of negative p...

Idioms are a colourful and fascinating aspect of English which commonly used in all types language, formal informal, spoken written. Despite the emerging theoretical accounts idioms up to now, little attention has been paid teaching learning idiomatic expressions as Foreign Language, for Specific Purposes or Academic classroom. Developing competence among language learners Slovakia remains form...