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Rett, Jessica; Hyams, Nina – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
This article presents several empirical studies of syntactically encoded evidentiality in English. The first part of our study consists of an adult online experiment that confirms claims in Asudeh & Toivonen (2012) that raised Perception Verb Similatives (PVSs; e.g. "John looks like he is sick") encode direct evidentiality. We then…
Descriptors: Syntax, Databases, Grammar, Correlation
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Chen, M.-H.; Huang, S.-T.; Chang, J. S.; Liou, H.-C. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
Paraphrasing, or restating information using different words, is critical to successful writing. However, EFL learners have difficulty in making paraphrases to meet their writing demands, and there has been little research on developing automatic reference tools to assist these learners' paraphrasing skills for better writing quality. In this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries