This study examined the acquisition of prenominal and postnominal genitives by Iranian EFL learners. Two variables were considered: possessive categories and language proficiency. We considered the influence of possessive categories such as lexical modifier, semantic relationship, and weight and syntactic complexity on genitive alternations by Iranian EFL learners. Also, we examined whether the...

We introduce L2K;P , a monadic second-order language for reasoning about trees which characterizes the strongly Context-Free Languages in the sense that a set of nite trees is de nable in L2K;P i it is (modulo a projection) a Local Set|the set of derivation trees generated by a CFG. This provides a exible approach to establishing language-theoretic complexity results for formalisms that are bas...

We introduce L2K,P, a monadic second-order language for reasoning about trees which characterizes the strongly Context-Free Languages in the sense that a set of finite trees is definable in L2K,P, if it is (modulo a projection) a Local Set-the set of derivation trees generated by a CFG. This provides a flexible approach to establishing language-theoretic complexity results for formalisms that a...

the present meta-analysis was conducted to provide a quantitative measure of the overall effects of task complexity on chinese efl learners’ language production. based on the strict inclusion criteria, 12 primary studies were synthesized according to key features. eleven of them were meta-analyzed to investigate effects of raising the resource-directing task complexity. results revealed that ...

The study presents an overview of discursive complexology, integral paradigm linguistics, cognitive studies and computer linguistics aimed at defining discourse complexity. article comprises three main parts, which successively outline views on the category linguistic complexity, history complexology modern methods text complexity assessment. Distinguishing concepts we recognize absolute nature...