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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Abundant research has indicated fluency features as meaningful predictors of second language proficiency. However, the extent to which different fluency dimensions and features can predict proficiency remains underexplored. This meta‐analysis employed a multilevel modeling approach to synthesize fluency–proficiency relationships from 71 ...
Xun Yan, Yuyun Lei, Yulin Pan
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We employed structural priming to test whether targeted exposure to unambiguous form–meaning mappings led to learning of noncanonical word orders, specifically in object relative clauses, among 165 low‐to‐intermediate‐level L1 German L2 learners of English.
Holger Hopp +4 more
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Parsing English with a Link Grammar [PDF]
arXiv, 1995 We develop a formal grammatical system called a link grammar, show how English grammar can be encoded in such a system, and give algorithms for efficiently parsing with a link grammar. Although the expressive power of link grammars is equivalent to that of context free grammars, encoding natural language grammars appears to be much easier with the new ...
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The LL(finite) strategy for optimal LL(k) parsing [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The LL(finite) parsing strategy for parsing of LL(k) grammars where k needs not to be known is presented. The strategy parses input in linear time, uses arbitrary but always minimal lookahead necessary to disambiguate between alternatives of nonterminals, and it is optimal in the number of lookahead terminal scans performed.
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Graph Interpolation Grammars: a Rule-based Approach to the Incremental Parsing of Natural Languages [PDF]
arXiv, 1998 Graph Interpolation Grammars are a declarative formalism with an operational semantics. Their goal is to emulate salient features of the human parser, and notably incrementality. The parsing process defined by GIGs incrementally builds a syntactic representation of a sentence as each successive lexeme is read.
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores how word frequency affects verb‐mediated prediction in L1 and L2 speakers, using a visual‐world eye‐tracking task. By manipulating frequency of nouns within subjects (higher; lower) and type of verbs used as predictive cues (semantically restrictive; neutral) in sentences (e.g., The {doctor/surgeon} {opened/moved} the box),
Haerim Hwang, Kitaek Kim
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The evolutionary psychology of syntax
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Linguists often characterize syntax in terms of combinatorial rules. But there is also a pragmatics to syntax in which communicators choose and tailor syntactic constructions for different communicative contexts. Great apes exposed to “language” combine elements creatively, but they show no skills in the pragmatics of syntax.
Michael Tomasello
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arXiv, 2010 We present two novel approaches to parsing context-free languages. The first approach is based on an extension of Brzozowski's derivative from regular expressions to context-free grammars. The second approach is based on a generalization of the derivative to parser combinators.
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Syntactic and phraseological complexity in Chinese as a second language adapted teaching materials
The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Graphical abstract: Abstract The adjustment of syntactic and phraseological complexity is a key consideration in text adaptation. However, research on this topic in the context of Chinese as a second language (CSL) remains limited. Using 700 CSL reading texts graded following the newly issued Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International ...
Jifeng Wu +4 more
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Equivalence of information production and generalised entropies in complex processes. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Hanel R, Thurner S.
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