Languages have formulaic multiword sequences (MWSs) which occur repeatedly in speech and writing (e.g., Nattinger & DeCarrico, 1992; Siyanova-Chanturia Pellicer-Sánchez, 2018). For learners, then, the production of MWSs is an important element developing spoken language that complex, accurate, fluent. Though use for achieving proficiency, it unclear whether supports or hinders another aspect le...

Natural language makes considerable use of recurrent formulaic patterns of words. This article triangulates the construct of formula from corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic, and educational perspectives. It describes the corpus linguistic extraction of pedagogically useful formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing. It determines English as a second language (ESL) and English for acad...

The present study examined the effects of input, input repetition and individual differences (i.e., prior vocabulary knowledge working memory) on L2 learners’ incidental lexical mining in an immediate a repeat oral task. Ninety participants were allocated to three groups: (n = 32), 29), no 29). group was exposed before performing task, whereas after only performed task without exposure. Three g...

Objective: This study was to investigate the factors involved in bone changes of hemophilic pseudotumor (HP) in soft tissues and their clinical value. Methods: The study included 32 patients with HP. All lesions were scanned multi-dimensionally with T1 weighted Imaging (WI), T2WI Imaging conventional scan and T2/PD fat suppression (FS) sequences of 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Bone co...

Introduction Post Gadolinium MR head and neck examinations remain challenging due to the need for a large anatomic coverage in minimum acquisition time. For cranial nerves and skull base investigations, 3D acquisitions are very useful not only to better visualize and analyze the cranial nerves but also to provide large head and neck coverage of wide-spread or multi-focal pathology. Until recent...

In the study of oral-formulaic performance the formula has always been understood as playing a pivotal role (Lord 1960, Foley 1995). But although it is clearly a linguistic unit, the technical study of formulae by linguists has been slight. This paper intends to remedy this lack by proposing some linguistic theories as to the nature of the formula. They will take the form of formal and testable...

There is an ongoing debate as to whether singing helps left-hemispheric stroke patients recover from non-fluent aphasia through stimulation of the right hemisphere. According to recent work, it may not be singing itself that aids speech production in non-fluent aphasic patients, but rhythm and lyric type. However, the long-term effects of melody and rhythm on speech recovery are largely unknown...

Little attention has been given to the treatment of formulaic expressions in language technology during the past few decades, although such expressions are in fact extremely common both in conversation and in written discourse. ComputerAssisted Translation (CAT) tools are currently the most widely used language technology tools among professional translators. In this paper, I intend to determin...

According to the observation on the distribution of motion differentials among the motion vector of any block and those of its four neighboring blocks from six real video sequences, this paper presents a new predictive search area approach for fast block motion estimation. Employing our proposed simple predictive search area approach into the full search (FS) algorithm, our improved FS algorith...

Formulaic sequence (FS) is a general term often used to refer to various types of recurrent clusters. One particular type of FSs common in different registers is lexical bundles (LBs). This study investigated whether LBs are stored and processed as a whole in the mind of language users and whether their functional discourse type has any effect on their processing. To serve these objectives, thr...