This study investigated the effects of two types of written feedback – direct corrective feedback (DCF) and metalinguistic explanation (ME) - on Iranian EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of English definite and indefinite articles. Assigned to three groups of DCF, ME, and control groups, the participants took four tests in three testing phases: pretest, posttest, and delayed posttes...

While the adult English determiner system encodes a definiteness distinction, many languages do not do so. This cross-linguistic variation raises the question of how the acquisition of determiner systems proceeds. In this paper we report on an experiment which tested English-acquiring children’s comprehension of definite and indefinite articles. On the basis of the results from this experiment,...

In this paper we explore a generative model for recovering surface syntax and strings from deep-syntactic tree structures. Deep analysis has been proposed for a number of language and speech processing tasks, such as machine translation and paraphrasing of speech transcripts. In an effort to validate one such formalism of deep syntax, the Praguian Tectogrammatical Representation (TR), we presen...