the significance of error analysis for the learner, the teacher and the researcher is now widely recognized. earlier studies of error analysis concentrated on intersystematic comparison of the “native language” and the “target language” and drew the required data largely from intuitions and impressionistic observations. this study was conducted on the basis of the following observations: (1) to...

Abstract Bringing together lines of research from sentence processing and lexical access, this empirical study investigates the interplay between (grammatical gender) syntactic (word order) cross-linguistic overlap in L2 German. Eighty-six L1 Spanish-L2 German thirty-six monolingual adults completed a self-paced reading task with noun phrases (NPs) manipulated by L1-L2 gender congruency (congru...

In the most general way of speaking, people use the noun “memory” to refer to instances where information of the past is made available for present purposes. In this minimal sense the rings of trees are memories of the climatic conditions in the seasonal succession of years during certain periods of the past. The characteristic features of tree rings make available this information for the pres...

Recent analyses have revealed that child-directed speech contains distributional regularities that could, in principle, support young children's discovery of distinct grammatical categories (noun, verb, adjective). In particular, a distributional unit known as the frequent frame appears to be especially informative (Mintz, 2003). However, analyses have focused almost exclusively on the distribu...

The earliest generative work derived all nominalizations syntactically (Chomsky 1955-6, Lees 1960). Chomsky (1970) then argued that only -ing gerunds are derived syntactically, while all other types of event nominals, such as refutation, acceptance, refusal, are derived morphologically in the lexicon from bases that are unspecified between nouns and verbs. The suffix -ing was shown to serve bot...

The paper presents an outline of a system for grammatical tagging of the London-Lund Corpus of spoken English consisting of some 450 000 words. The material, all of which will be available on magnetic computer tape, and part of which is now available in both machinereadable and printed form, has been transcribed orthographically with prosodic marking for tone units, nuclei, stresses, pauses, et...

We present a distributional vector space model that incorporates Latent Dirichlet Allocation in order to capture the semantic relation holding between adjectives and nouns along interpretable dimensions of meaning: The meaning of adjective-noun phrases is characterized in terms of ontological attributes that are prominent in their compositional semantics. The model is evaluated in a similarity ...

Five experiments looked at the effect of repeated phonemes in the production of colour adjective+noun phrases in English (“green gun”), or noun+colour adjective phrases in Spanish and French. Whereas phoneme repetition sped up naming latencies in the case of prenominal colour adjectives, it induced either no effect or inhibition in the postnominal case. We argue that this dissociation does not ...

Analyzing sentence patterns turns into more essential in song lyrics as there are regularly misinterpretation of words when they arranged sentences lyrics. This research was aimed to analyze the types phrase, clause and describe Agnez Mo’s through tree diagram. employed qualitative research. The data this is four songs, are: Long I get paid, Coke bottle, Damn love you Overdose. In analyzing dat...

the present study aims to examine the analysis of persian adjective phrases (aps) within role and reference grammar (rrg) and to appraise the merits and demerits thereof. in rrg, there is no independent ap; therefore, predicative adjectives are considered as predicate inside nucleus of the clause and attributive adjectives are regarded as modifiers within the periphery of nucleusn. each type of...