perezparedes

Reunión Consejo de Gobierno 30/4/2015

by

Toda la información sobre el Consejo de Gobierno Reunión del Consejo de Gobierno, en sesión ordinaria, 30 de abril de 2015 a las 9:00 horas en primera convocatoria y media hora más tarde en segunda, en la Sala de Juntas del edificio Convalecencia, que se desarrollará conforme al siguiente ORDEN DEL DÍA 1. Aprobación, si … Read more

Where’s austerity in everyday speech?

by

According to Prof. McEnery, people in conversations avoid using words such as “austerity”, only once in a 5 million corpus. Listen to the interview below. Surprising? Don’t think so. “Expected” words do not crop up when data is examined. We have found that the UK legislation 2007-2011 on immigration does not include the lemma “immigrant” … Read more

Text simplification and complexity

by

Presentation by Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen Publications Aim: to reduce linguistic complexity: lexis, syntax, text length, information order, cohesive texts are easier to follow, numerical simplification, improve quality (texts with errors are difficult to read), spelling and grammar checks, how engaging a text is (personal narratives), humour. Monolingual translation: one language into the same … Read more

Categories CFP

Evaluating complexity in syntax

by

Presentation by Phillippe Blache, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université Part of the Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective workshop at UCL, Belgium, 24 April 2015 Complexity means different things to different people System vs Structural complexity (Dahl, 2004) Existing models: incomplete dependency hypothesis, dependency locality theory, early intermediate constituents principle, activation. However, they … Read more

L2 complexity, a difficult matter

by

Presentation by Alex Housen Part of the Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective workshop at UCL, Belgium, 24 April 2015 Complexity in SLA research Early days: 70s and 80s; simplification vs complexification 1990-2010s: rarely investigates for its own sake As indepedent variable: task complexity, complexity of the L2 target feature As dependent variable: descriptor of L2 … Read more

Categories CFP