This paper describes the outcomes of an investigation into the misconceptions and difficulties encountered when learning grammar. The study is based on evidence collected from a class of twelve-year-olds who were engaged upon a workscheme focusing on grammar,and two cohorts of PGCE English students undertaking an intensive grammar course. The analysis suggests that learning metalinguistic knowl...

This study investigated whether the negative effect of complexity on artificial grammar learning could be compensated by adding semantics. Participants were exposed to exemplars from a simple or a complex finite state grammar presented with or without a semantic reference field. As expected, performance on a grammaticality judgment test was higher for the simple grammar than for the complex gra...

Previous studies have suggested that both automatic and intentional processes contribute to the learning of grammar and fragment knowledge in artificial grammar learning (AGL) tasks. To explore the relative contribution of automatic and intentional processes to knowledge gained in AGL, we utilized dual-task methodology to dissociate automatic and intentional grammar- and fragment-based knowledg...

the common belief among a great number of linguists and psycholinguists is that the solution to the problem of language acquisition, also called the projection problem or plato’s problem, lies within the prior knowledge. one hypothesis that constitutes the foundation of this belief is that the gap between the child-exposed input (primary data) and the linguistic system (linguistic competence) i...

In this paper we introduce a novel framework to compute jointly syntactic parses and semantic representations of a written sentence. To achieve this goal, we couple a syntactico-semantic grammar and a knowledge base. The knowledge base is implemented in Description Logics, in a polynomial variant. The grammar is a Range Concatenation Grammar, which combines expressive power and polynomial parsi...

the present research aims to examine the effect of task-based syllabus and contrastive analysis of nominal and verbal phrases in persian and lari languages on enhancing persian knowledge of lari speakers. to do so, a sample of 60 subjects in second year of elementary school was selected through multistage and purposive sampling. then, they were divided into two thirty-student groups, one experi...

A production rule of a knowledge base ia called Ed sential if it is present in any prime knowledge ba8e which is logically equivalent to the given one. The identification of essential rules indicates the degree of fkeedom we have in constructing logically equivalent transfomaationa of the base, by specifying the set of rules which must remain in place, and implicitly showing which rulea could b...

The paper presents a computationally tractable application of Bulgarian pronouns representation using Universal Networking Language (UNL) formalism. It analyses grammar features of pronouns and offers a model of their formal representation based on incorporation of grammar, semantic and lexical knowledge by using standard UNL knowledge representation mechanisms. The entire application presents ...