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Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Argues that much of language acquisition is sequence learning and that the resultant long-term knowledge base of language sequences serves as the database for grammar acquisition. The article also proposes mechanisms to analyze sequence information that result in knowledge of underlying grammar. (184 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
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Pauwels, Anne; Winter, Joanne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
The concurrent trends of globalisation and "indigenisation" affecting the English language (varieties) around the world pose some interesting questions for language planning and reform issues (e.g. Phillipson, 1992; Pennycook, 1994; Crystal, 1997). With this project we examine the impact of these competing trends on "corpus…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Planning, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries
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Belcher, Diane D. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2006
This overview of the current state of English for specific purposes (ESP) begins by surveying ongoing debates on key topics: needs assessment and its goals, specificity in instructional methods, and the role of subject knowledge in instructor expertise. Two strands of current theory and research are next surveyed, namely, genre theory and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, English for Special Purposes
Niaz, Mansoor – 1989
A large proportion of college students majoring in science are unable to translate even simple sentences into algebraic equations. Given the following sentence, "There are six times as many students (S) as professors (P) at this university," 37% of 150 freshmen engineering students in a study conducted in 1981 by Clement, Lockhead, and Monk wrote…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Computational Linguistics, Developmental Stages
Levine, Arvin – 1977
This work treats some of the important issues encountered in an attempt to synthesize natural sounding English speech from arbitrary written text. Details of the systems that interact in producing speech are described. The principal systems dealt with are phonology (intonation), phonetics, syntax, semantics, and text-view (discourse). Technical…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Artificial Speech, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Pepinsky, Harold B. – 1978
A Computer-Assisted Language Analysis System (CALAS) was developed as a syntactic and semantic analyzer of machine readable text in English. CALAS includes a set of computer programs, an algorithm for implementation, and human editors who assist the computer and its programmer in the processing of data. Data analysis is accomplished in three…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs
Loh, Shiu-Chang; And Others – Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bulletin, 1978
A practical machine translation system called CULT (Chinese University Language Translator), capable of translating Chinese mathematical texts into readable English, has been developed during the period 1969-1977 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Programs for the system are written in Standard FORTRAN and run on the ICL1904A computer system.…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Chinese, Computational Linguistics
von Glasersfeld, Ernst; Pisani, Pier Paolo – 1968
The second version of the Multistore Sentence Analysis System, implemented on an IBM 360/65, uses a correlational grammar to parse English sentences and displays the parsings as hierarchical syntactic structures comparable to tree diagrams. Since correlational syntax comprises much that is usually considered semantic information, the system…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Prokop, Manfred – Classroom Interaction Newsletter, 1974
This paper describes a method to extract, by computer, maximum amounts of sequential information on pattern frequencies underlying verbal interactions in the foreign language classroom. For this purpose, an observation instrument was developed which was expected to allow the study of the structure of the interaction process; it was hypothesized…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs
Lea, Wayne A. – 1973
This report covers research conducted between July 1972 and March 1973. Experiments were conducted on the automatic detection of constituent boundaries and location of stressed syllables by analysis of fundamental frequency and energy contours, for recordings of six talkers reading the Rainbow Script, two talkers reading a paragraph composed of…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Algorithms, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception
Truby, H. M. – 1964
In order to effect the unambiguous identification of particular members of sets of homonyms--homophones or homographs as the case might be--during the automated conversation of written language to spoken language and/or vice versa, additional linguistic information must become available regarding the primary thought-to-physical-manifestation…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Machine Translation
Simmons, Robert S.; Silberman, Harry F. – 1967
A research program was planned to develop a first, experimental computer-assisted instruction system that would permit interaction with students in a subset natural English. At the base of this system was a model of cognition that would represent the knowledge content of the material to be taught and the student's current knowledge of it. A…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction
Hays, David G. – 1969
Much work in computational linguistics, e.g. the preparation of concordances and text files, has dealt strictly with the surface of language, treating it as nothing more than strings of characters or phonemes. The "classical" scheme, developed as a result of dissatisfaction with the inability of such surface systems to deal with problems such as…
Descriptors: Analog Computers, Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computational Linguistics
Tell, B. – 1973
The information service performed by the Royal Institute of Technology handles requests from both university users and from industry. Fourteen data bases are currently used for SDI purposes. The system is of a general nature which permits inclusion of various data bases of completely different tape formats. Any combination of elements of a…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Databases, Industry, Information Services
Borden, George A. – 1971
ARIS is an artificial intelligence system which uses the English language to learn, understand, and communicate. The system attempts to simulate the psychoneurological processes which enable man to communicate verbally. It uses a modified stratificational grammar model and is being programed in PL/1 (a programing language) for an IBM 360/67…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Computational Linguistics
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