Event-driven grammars: Relating abstract and concrete levels of visual languages [PDF]
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10270-007-0051-2In this work we introduce event-driven grammars, a kind of graph grammars that are especially suited for visual modelling environments generated by meta ...
Guerra, Esther, Lara, Juan de
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Exploring the Local Grammar of Evaluation: The Case of Adjectival Patterns in American and Italian Judicial Discourse [PDF]
Based on a 2-million word bilingual comparable corpus of American and Italian judgments, this paper tests the applicability of a local grammar to study evaluative phraseology in judicial discourse in English and Italian. In particular, the study compares
Barnbrook +57 more
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Longitudinal effects of task performance and self-concept on preadolescent EFL learners’ causal attributions of grammar success and failure [PDF]
Learners’ academic self-concepts and attributions have been widely evidenced to substantially regulate their educational development. Developmentally, they will not only operate in a mutually reinforcing manner.
Faber, Günter
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Using Regular Languages to Explore the Representational Capacity of Recurrent Neural Architectures [PDF]
The presence of Long Distance Dependencies (LDDs) in sequential data poses significant challenges for computational models. Various recurrent neural architectures have been designed to mitigate this issue.
AS Reber +13 more
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Arabic language-learning strategy preferences among undergraduate students [PDF]
This study elicited Arabic students’ perceptions regarding their language-learning strategy preferences (LLSPs). A sample of 120 undergraduate Arabic students participated. Data were collected through a questionnaire and interviews.
Brosh, Hezi Y.
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The source ambiguity problem: Distinguishing the effects of grammar and processing on acceptability judgments [PDF]
Judgments of linguistic unacceptability may theoretically arise from either grammatical deviance or significant processing difficulty. Acceptability data are thus naturally ambiguous in theories that explicitly distinguish formal and functional ...
Anderson J. R. +58 more
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Blind insight: metacognitive discrimination despite chance task performance [PDF]
Blindsight and other examples of unconscious knowledge and perception demonstrate dissociations between judgment accuracy and metacognition: Studies reveal that participants’ judgment accuracy can be above chance while their confidence ratings fail ...
Barrett, Adam B +4 more
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Korean language learning demotivation among EFL instructors in South Korea [PDF]
Studies investigating the motivation of L1 speakers of English to learn the national language of the host society they currently reside in remain rare, despite the exponential growth of such individuals residing in these nations this century.
Gearing, Nigel
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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This chapter will motivate why it is useful to consider the topic of derivations and filtering in more detail. We will argue against the popular belief that the minimalist program and optimality theory are incompatible theories in that the former places ...
Broekhuis, H., Vogel, R.
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