Formulaic language and sequence as the core characteristic of real-life language and native-like fluency, has been a subject of inquiry in recent decades. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of two extensive reading text types, i.e., adaptive and authentic, on Iranian EFL learners’ development of lexical bundles. To this aim, 20 intermediate EFL learners were chosen to pa...

We implemented the connectionist model of social-pragmatic word learning (Caza & Knott, 2012) to test the hypothesis that reduced joint attention between infant and mother would increase the difference in acquisition between nouns and verbs as observed in Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The ratio of objects to actions in the observed event stream was manipulated to create an original noun-ver...

This paper presents the modifications in automatic Lexical Functional Grammar development technique. It proposes a new syntax customized from base syntax pattern of a regular expression based CFG template. This modification is helpful to add generalization in these templates with the coordination of constraint solver of LFG parsers. Further this paper reports the results of the system that has ...

We investigated object naming in Dutch-French bilingual children to determine the developmental trajectory of the cross-language convergence in naming patterns shown by bilingual adults. We collected name choices for nearly 200 common household containers from French-Dutch simultaneous bilinguals of 6 different age groups, along with monolingual control groups. Multidimensional scaling analysis...

This paper examines the claim that lexical word formation rules are ordered at three levels of application (Kiparsky, 1982). Lexical rules of affixation and compounding differ with respect to phonological effects, semantic regularity and productivity. With respect to these properties, rules can be assigned to one of three “levels” and are applied sequentially. Level-ordering predicts that irreg...

One way of making progress at present on these ultimate questions is to ask them of structured connectionist systems, rather than the real neural systems of the brain, in the hope that the connectionist results will give us computational insight to how the brain captures concepts and language. From our perspective, modeling lexical development is an ideal task for studying embodied cognition. W...