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Szreder, Marta; de Ruiter, Laura E.; Ntelitheos, Dimitrios – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This study investigates the acquisition of the Imperfective verb inflection paradigm in Emirati Arabic (EA), to determine whether the learning process is sensitive to the phonological and typological properties of the input. We collected data from 48 participants aged 2;7 to 5;9 years, using an elicited production paradigm. Input frequencies of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semitic Languages, Accuracy, Foreign Countries
Das, Syaamantak; Das Mandal, Shyamal Kumar; Basu, Anupam – Journal of Education, 2022
It was observed from previous researches that Bloom's Taxonomy action verbs (BTAVs) are overlapping in multiple cognitive levels, causing ambiguity about the real sense of the word. A data set of BTAVs was ranked using a statistical classification. Four categories of BTAVs were identified, out of which 153 BTAVs (86.44%) are classified into a…
Descriptors: Verbs, Classification, Taxonomy, Ambiguity (Semantics)
Almutairi, Mashael; Al Kous, Nouf; Zitouni, Mimouna – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
President Barack Obama's use of the hedging language is an evidence of his unique mastery of rhetorical strategies, power of persuasion and an influential speaker. The purpose of this study was to identify and retrieve the hedging devices contained in President Obama's speeches. For this purpose, his most important and decisive speeches were…
Descriptors: Presidents, Language Usage, Speeches, Taxonomy
Lertcharoenwanich, Pallapa; Phoocharoensil, Supakorn – rEFLections, 2022
Synonyms can be problematic for EFL learners since each synonym has distinct meanings to be used in different context. The purposes of this corpus-based study are to investigate distinctions of the synonymous nouns purpose, goal and objective based on the distribution across genres in which the degree of formality is determined and to examine…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rangsarittikun, Ronnakrit – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2023
This study draws on the strengths of both corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis approaches to investigate the issues of power and ideology of teachers evident in their language use in the discussions on Ajarn.com. Data collection involved constructing a corpus from the discussions on the website, with the discussion threads dated from…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Classification
Taieb, Almontassar Bellah; Toumi, Naouel – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Multi-word combinations are crucial for the production of various discourse types as well as for the construction of a credible and persuasive academic persona. This study investigates the frequency, structure, and function of the most frequently occurring 4-lexical bundles in writings from the field of linguistics. Following Biber et al.'s (1999)…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Linguistics
Ates, N. Tayyibe – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2022
Collocations make it possible to use and understand the language in an effective way. In this context, understanding collocation issues is important for both native speakers and language learners. This study aims at revealing certain determinations and problems with regard to the classification of word combinations in Turkish. For this purpose,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Turkish, Language Usage, Native Speakers
Barghamadi, Maryam – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
Citation is an essential part of academic writing and allows writers to make strong arguments, review previous research, and express their opinions. This study investigates reporting verbs as a part of citation practice in the research articles published in Iranian and international journals (with different linguacultural backgrounds) in…
Descriptors: Verbs, Research Reports, Citations (References), Periodicals
Li, Yanru – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the erroneous use of the high-frequency verb TAKE by the Chinese college learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), aiming to identify the similarities and differences between Chinese EFL learners, aimed at finding out more effective ways for the teaching and researching of the high-frequency verbs. Corpus-based…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Patterson, Katie J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
This paper addresses the issues with current systems of categorisation and measurement of linguistic metaphoricity, which have coloured most research into the area to-date. The paper discusses the role of metaphor as a form of creative language and a deviation from more linguistic norms and conventionalities. Two current theories are discussed as…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Priming, Classification, Linguistic Theory
Blake, John – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This article describes the development of a tense and aspect identifier, an online tool designed to help learners of English by harnessing a natural language processing pipeline to automatically classify verb groups into one of 12 grammatical tenses. Currently, there is no website or application that can automatically identify tense in context,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction
Oktavianti, Ikmi Nur – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2018
This paper examines the usage frequency of phonetically reduced modals (i.e. "gonna," "wanna," "gotta") in Present-day English. It is assumed that in distinct sociolinguistic and discourse contexts, the use of reduced modals is dynamic. To collect the data, there are five corpora used in this study, "Corpus of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Word Frequency
Ide, Daisuke; Kimura, Masaomi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
Deep cases representing the significant meaning of nouns in sentences play a crucial role in semantic analysis. However, a case tends to be manually identified because it requires understanding the meaning and relationships of words. To address this problem, we propose a method to predict deep cases by analyzing the relationship between nouns,…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages), Japanese
Conwell, Erin – Journal of Child Language, 2017
One strategy that children might use to sort words into grammatical categories such as noun and verb is distributional bootstrapping, in which local co-occurrence information is used to distinguish between categories. Words that can be used in more than one grammatical category could be problematic for this approach. Using naturalistic corpus…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Suprasegmentals, Grammar
Lüdeling, Anke; Hirschmann, Hagen; Shadrova, Anna – Language Learning, 2017
The present study analyzes morphological productivity for complex verbs in second language acquisition by analyzing a corpus of German as a Foreign Language (GFL). It shows that advanced learners of GFL use prefix and particle verbs relatively frequently and productively but less so than native speakers do and discusses these findings in the light…
Descriptors: Models, Language Research, Computational Linguistics, Classification