This study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of Iranian EFL teachers about the role of grammar in English language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. Data were collected through a questionnaire developed by Burgess and Etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. The first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...

Writing the grammar of a language is one of the most significant outputs of linguistic studies. In Iran, it is Avicenna (Ibn-e Sina) who is credited with the first such compilation of the Persian language. Understanding the weaknesses associated with the traditional trends of grammar writing in Iran, contemporary Iranian linguists adopted the modern Western approach following the Chomskyan Turn...

It is necessary to read an entire text in order understand its meaning, or it may suffice a few pages sentences conclude that the content of discourse coherent and interdependent. As Arab commentators rhetoricians have put it, constitutes artistic painting which one part does not replace other. On contrary, this alone represent outside text, represents inside question arise here can readers ext...

The purpose of this work is to investigate the process of grammatical acquisition from data. In order to do that, a computational learning system is used, composed of a Universal Grammar with associated parameters, and a learning algorithm, following the Principles and Parameters Theory. The Universal Grammar is implemented as a Unification-Based Generalised Categorial Grammar, embedded in a de...

We propose CMSMs, a novel type of generic compositional models for syntactic and semantic aspects of natural language, based on matrix multiplication. We argue for the structural and cognitive plausibility of this model and show that it is able to cover and combine various common compositional NLP approaches ranging from statistical word space models to symbolic grammar formalisms.

In The emergence of language, it is argued that much of what generative linguistics has characterized as ‘rules’ in fact can be derived from domaingeneral cognitive mechanisms. One example of this perspective is Bates & Goodman’s contribution ‘On the emergence of grammar in the lexicon’, which Sabbagh & Gelman say offers ‘...a series of compelling arguments detailing how development and early a...