Combinatorial constraints are commonly assumed in linguistics to be either based on the grammatical system of a language or to be idiosyncratic constraints on the combinatorial properties of individual lexical items and not extensible in any systematic way to larger subsets of the vocabulary. Thus, the required complements of verbs are an example of a constraint of the former type, while the la...

The importance and howness of language learning/ acquisition has been a great concern for decades. There are many factors that play important roles in this regard. This research compared the performance of native Persian and English elementary students to see if there is any significant difference between the two groups and which type of collocation they performed better within the groups. For ...

Collocation is a common language phenomenon which has attracted the interest of researchers in many subfields of both theoretical and computational linguistics. Although there is no commonly accepted and precise definition of this phenomenon, collocations are generally understood as complex lexical items, often characterized as unpredictable, idiosyncratic, holistic, mutually selective, and so ...

This paper explored the types of collocations used in an English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris (SMA/MA/SMK/MAK, Kelas X, Semester 1). The primary source data was textbook, Inggris, which published by Indonesian government for first-year or class 10 students senior high schools (SMA/MA/SMK/MAK). study a corpus analysis. researchers utilized AntCont 3.5.8 to extract and discover required then ...

We describe a method to automatically discover translation collocations from a bilingual corpus and how these improve a machine translation system. The process of inference of collocations is iterative: an alignment is used to derive an initial set of collocations, these are used in turn to improve the alignment and this new alignment is used to generate new collocations. This process is repeat...

This paper presents the results of a preliminary investigation into the use of statistical collocation as a method for discovering characteristic properties of grammatical classes (i.e. part-of-speech categories such as noun, adjective, verb, and so on). In particular, the focus of the current investigation is the collocational patterns found around adpositions in English and Nepali. The claim ...

Although the field of machine translation has witnessed huge improvements in recent years, its potentials have not been fully exploited other interdisciplinary areas such as foreign language teaching. The aim this paper, therefore, is to report an experiment which technology was employed teach a group students. This mixed-method study explores effect teaching editing techniques Persian EFL univ...

Collocations are one of the areas generally considered problematic for EFL learners. Iranian learners of English like other EFL learners face various problems in producing oral collocations.  An analysis of learners' spoken interlanguage both indicates the scope of the problem and the necessity to spend more time and energy by learners on mastering collocations. The present study specifically f...

collocations are one of the areas generally considered problematic for efl learners. iranian learners of english like other efl learners face various problems in producing oral collocations.  an analysis of learners' spoken interlanguage both indicates the scope of the problem and the necessity to spend more time and energy by learners on mastering collocations. the present study specifically f...