This paper investigates the relationship between the probability with which a word appears in a given lexical context and the prosodic variability of that word. Regression analyses indicate that the higher the probability of a word in its lexical context, the lower the variability in the pitch accent realisation of that word (if accented), and the lower the variability in the prosodic pattern a...

Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

Collocations such as heavy rain or make [a] decision, are combinations of two elements where one (the base) is freely chosen, while the choice of the other (collocate) is restricted, depending on the base. Collocations present difficulties even to advanced language learners, who usually struggle to find the right collocate to express a particular meaning, e.g., both heavy and strong express the...

The study of translation by bilingual female students studying Arabic had not received much attention, especially with regard to the cultural errors that these made during English-Arabic translations, which resulted in them making mistakes translation. This prompted researchers focus on this area. main objective article is explore common collocation among Federal College Education (Technical), ...

Acquiring vocabulary has always been recognized as a significant and challenging part of language learning process. In this study, the researcher examined the extent to which form recall of target lexical items by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) is affected by a) repetition and b) by the type of target item; single words versus collocations. The treatment consisted of non-commun...

Collocations are notoriously difficult for non-native speakers to translate, primarily because they are opaque and can not be translated on a word by word basis. We describe a program named Champollion which, given a pair of parallel corpora in two different languages, automatically produces translations of an input list of collocations. Our goal is to provide a tool to compile bilingual lexica...

The extraction of collocations from corpora has been actively worked on since the late eighties. However, so far, an important task of collocation processing, namely the semantic interpretation of the collocate, did not receive much attention, although the semantics of a given word when used as collocate very often varies from the semantics of this word when used in a free co-occurrence. In thi...

In this paper, we show that accessibility of syntactic information eases collocation extraction from corpora, and supports identi cation of lexical and structural restrictions related to collocations. For collocation identi cation we use a corpus that is automatically annotated applying a part-of-speech tagger and a phrase chunker.