It is difficult for L2 English learners in general, and especially Chinese learners of English, to form idiomatic collocations. This article presents a comparison of the use of intensifier-verb collocations in English...
The experiment presented in this research is targeting a 'positional' stage of a 'modular' model of speech production originally proposed by Levelt (1989), Bock & Levelt (1994), where selected lemmas are inse...
supported Beijing Social Science Fund Project(17YYB024);The Importation and Development of HighCaliber Talents Project (The Great Wall Scholar Program)of Beijing Municipal Institutions(CIT&TCD20150303)
Verb-argument relation is a very important aspect of syntax-semantics interaction in sentence processing. Previous ERP (event related potentials) studies in this field concentrated on the relation between the verb a...
This study draws on usage-based approach to language learning and investigates the role of syntactical indeterminacy and token frequency in constructional acquisition, for which reflexive verb constructions were selec...
This article presents a longitudinal profile of the advanced learner's use of verb morphology in L2 French, with the aim of tracking how such usage evolves within the advanced learner variety over a two-year period, ...
This paper reports on a series of Consciousness-Raising (C-R) activities focusing on prefabricated verbs chunks and verb patterns. An 18-week experiment was carried out incorporating the C-R activities into a Compre...
The present study reports on the use of the high-frequency verb do in written English performance based on the Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC). The native English corpus for comparison is the Louvain Corpus of N...