The probabilistic relation between verbs and their arguments plays an important role in modern statistical parsers and supertaggers, and in psychological theories of language processing. But these probabilities are computed in very different ways by the two sets of researchers. Computational linguists compute verb subcategorization probabilities from large corpora while psycholinguists compute ...

Abstract: Indonesians and Americans have the strategies to respond compliment which came from different culture. The aims of this research were addressing types disclosing direct indirect response used by compliments. data consist English Indonesian. was analyzed using qualitative method. Discourse Completion Test (DCT) questionnaire know differences between given Americans. result showed that ...

Abstract This study investigates the impact of a predeparture intervention on developing pragmatic knowledge in abroad context. The included 66 university-level Japanese learners English who participated four-month program Canada. consisted implicit-inductive, explicit-deductive, and explicit-inductive methods instruction speech acts. Pragmatic development was measured by gain scores written di...

Abstract Although euphemism has been studied in many Arabic dialects, it not yet received due attention Iraqi (IA). This study investigates the use of euphemistic strategies by IA speakers and effect gender degree formality on these strategies. In order to achieve objectives, a discourse completion test (DCT) was developed distributed 160 (80 males 80 females) university students. The data were...

Human spoken language production is directed towards communication delivering comprehensible information to recipients. Speech segmentation into small units efficiently enhances a sensible and interpretable discourse structure. Such processing units in real-life communication may be applied to semantic, syntactic, or prosodic structures. Previous studies have proposed various theories of speech...

this study compared the types of requesting strategies (rss) employed by thirty three persian native speakers (pnss) students at payame-noor university (pnu) in tehran, thirty seven persian lower-intermediate learners (plls) and thirty seven persian upper-intermediate learners (puls) students at persian center of imam khomeini international university (ikiu) in qazvin in order to study to what ...

this study investigated iranian english language learners’ use of circumlocution for culture-specific referents. a discourse completion test (dct) was designed in english and persian, consisting of items dealing with iranian culture-specific notions and distributed among 3 groups. the persian language group received the persian version, whereas the english language learners, divided into high a...

This study investigated the effects of phonologic treatment for anomia in aphasia. We proposed that if treatment were directed at the level of the phonologic processor, opportunities for naming via a phonological route, as opposed to a strictly whole word route, would be enhanced, thereby improving naming. The participants, ten people with anomia and aphasia due to left hemisphere stroke, recei...

Priming in word fragment completion is revealed by the increased probability of correctly completing a fragment like "_ l l_p_e" when the word "ellipse" was seen recently. Three experiments investigated the effects on priming of manipulating the context in which the words were seen. Three principal results emerged. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that there was much more priming for words stud...

At present, discourse parsing is an important research topic. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is one of the most popular approaches in this field. In general, discourse parsing includes three stages: discourse segmentation, discourse relations detection and building up rhetorical trees. Different strategies are used when developing discourse parsers. One of the strategies to detect discourse ...