Targeting Grammar
Author : Del Merrick
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781925076622
Choosing a Grammar
Author : Isaac Gould
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9027265917
Book Description
Thesis: Ph. D.-- Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2015.
Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications
Author : Georgios Paliouras
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540234101
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, ICGI 2004, held in Athens, Greece in October 2004. The 20 revised full papers and 8 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The topics of the papers presented range from theoretical results of learning algorithms to innovative applications of grammatical inference and from learning several interesting classes of formal grammars to estimations of probabilistic grammars.
Target Grammar
Author : Pegasus
Publisher : B Jain Publishers Pvt Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category : English language
ISBN : 9788131911143
Book Description
This series consists of five books which are carefully graded according to age and the need of the learner. Replete with exercises and colourful illustrations, the books will go a long way in improving the English language skills of children.
Grammatical Inference for Computational Linguistics
Author : Jeffrey Heinz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3031021592
Book Description
This book provides a thorough introduction to the subfield of theoretical computer science known as grammatical inference from a computational linguistic perspective. Grammatical inference provides principled methods for developing computationally sound algorithms that learn structure from strings of symbols. The relationship to computational linguistics is natural because many research problems in computational linguistics are learning problems on words, phrases, and sentences: What algorithm can take as input some finite amount of data (for instance a corpus, annotated or otherwise) and output a system that behaves "correctly" on specific tasks? Throughout the text, the key concepts of grammatical inference are interleaved with illustrative examples drawn from problems in computational linguistics. Special attention is paid to the notion of "learning bias." In the context of computational linguistics, such bias can be thought to reflect common (ideally universal) properties of natural languages. This bias can be incorporated either by identifying a learnable class of languages which contains the language to be learned or by using particular strategies for optimizing parameter values. Examples are drawn largely from two linguistic domains (phonology and syntax) which span major regions of the Chomsky Hierarchy (from regular to context-sensitive classes). The conclusion summarizes the major lessons and open questions that grammatical inference brings to computational linguistics. Table of Contents: List of Figures / List of Tables / Preface / Studying Learning / Formal Learning / Learning Regular Languages / Learning Non-Regular Languages / Lessons Learned and Open Problems / Bibliography / Author Biographies
English for Everyone Teacher's Guide
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 0744026687
Book Description
Get the most out of your students with structured teaching materials for English language lessons with the English for Everyone Teacher’s Guide. Ideal for English test preparations or ESL lesson plans, the Teacher’s Guide uses visual teaching methods to introduce English as a second language, reinforced through a variety of exercises and examples that students can get involved in. This Teacher’s Guide is an essential resource that can be used to support an entire classroom as well as for one-to-one tuition to help teach English as a second language. Use this comprehensive teaching resource to approach practical English usage for beginners in a simplified, fun, and engaging way with practical tips and exercises suggested throughout the book. Use the guide as a stand-alone lesson structure or alongside the English for Everyone Course and Practice Books (Levels 1-4) for a fully comprehensive course on English covering core language skills, grammar rules, and vocabulary with supporting audio materials, online resources, and practice exercises. About English For Everyone English for Everyone is a series of guides and practice books that support English learning for teenagers and adults from a beginner level, to intermediate, and advanced practical English. Offering a fun and easy-to-follow format that offers guidance for both teaching English as a foreign language, and a self-study approach with resources available to improve English speaking, reading, and writing. Whether you are looking for ESL teaching resources or a structured program for students to learn English as a second language, the English for Everyone Series provides: - Sample language examples: New language topics are introduced in context using clear, illustrated, and color-coded explanations - Supporting audio: Extensive English-speaking audio materials integrated into every unit, giving vital oral and listening practice. (All supplementary audio is available on the DK English for Everyone website and IOS/Android App). - Quick referencing: Easy-to-follow units for easy referencing and teaching- Sentence formation guides: Visual break downs of essential English grammar for beginners, showing learners how to recreate even complex English sentences - Visual English vocabulary cues: Lists of useful English words and common phrases with visual aids are available throughout the book The English for Everyone Series covers the skills and topics required for all major global English-language exams and reference frameworks including: - CEFR - TOEFL - IELTS - TOEIC
Working with Bilingual Language Disability
Author : Deirdre M. Duncan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1489928553
Book Description
The decision to write this book was taken by a group of practising speech therapists who worked with bilingually language handi capped children in the UK. They formed a professional interest group called the Specific Interest Group in Bilingualism because of the need felt by speech therapists to have some forum for discuss ing the challenges posed by the assessment and treatment of the bilingually language handicapped. In these regular discussion groups it became clear that similar experiences were encountered by all speech therapists working with these client populations up and down the country. They centred on managing the linguistic diversity, the need for develop mental language information, the need for appropriate assessment protocols, the recruitment of bilingual staff and appreciating the positive perspective of working in this field. In the UK the range of languages is extensive. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Ukranian, Hong Kong Chinese, Vietnamese Chinese, Creole, Black English, Bengali, Gujerati and Panjabi cover the main ethnolinguistic groups. In the 1987 ILEA language census over 140 languages were recorded as being spoken in London.
Computational Approaches to Language Acquisition
Author : Michael R. Brent
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262522298
Book Description
The past fifteen years have seen great changes in the field of language acquisition. New experimental methods have yielded insights into the linguistic knowledge of ever younger children, and interest has grown in the phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects of the lexicon. Computational investigations of language acquisition have also changed, reflecting, among other things, the profound shift in the field of natural language processing from hand-crafted grammars to grammars that are learned automatically from samples of naturally occurring language.Each of the four research papers in this book takes a novel formal approach to a particular problem in language acquisition. In the first paper, J. M. Siskind looks at developmentally inspired models of word learning. In the second, M. R. Brent and T. A. Cartwright look at how children could discover the sounds of words, given that word boundaries are not marked by any acoustic analog of the spaces between written words. In the third, P. Resnik measures the association between verbs and the semantic categories of their arguments that children likely use as clues to verb meanings. Finally, P. Niyogi and R. C. Berwick address the setting of syntactic parameters such as headedness--for example, whether the direct object comes before or after the verb.
Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition
Author : Zhaohong Han
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853598357
Book Description
This volume, as a sequel to Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition by Han (2004), brings together a collection of most recent theoretical and empirical studies on fossilization, a classic problem of second language acquisition. It covers a wide range of perspectives and issues. The analyses discussed herein address key concerns of many second language researchers and teachers with regard to just how far anyone can go in learning a new language.
Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change
Author : Israel Sanz-Sánchez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027247072
Book Description
This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various sociolinguistic contexts acquire language variation; on the other, historical sociolinguistics as the field that focuses on the study of historical patterns of language variation and change. The overarching rationale for this interdisciplinary dialogue is that all forms of language change start and spread as the result of individual acts of acquisition throughout the speakers’ lives. The thirteen chapters in this book are authored by an international group of both established and emerging scholars. They encompass theoretical overviews of specific research areas within the broader realm of the acquisition of language variation, as well as case studies applying these theoretical advances to the exploration of language change in a wide range of sociohistorical contexts in the Americas, Oceania, and Asia. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in the area of language acquisition, language variation and language change, especially those working on interdisciplinary and crosslinguistic connections among these areas.
