This study is a comparison of monolingual speech errors made by Korean and English monolingual speakers, monolingual speech errors made by Korean-English bilingual speakers, and bilingual speech errors made by Korean-English bilingual speakers; it also incorporates a corpus of b…
Odlin (2003) observes that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the importance of L1 transfer in second-language acquisition (henceforth SLA). To test whether L1 transfer is a significant factor in SLA of English relative clauses (RCs), an English-language acceptabi…
The current study investigated whether the pragmatic component of the language of individuals with aphasia is intact as manifested by a systematic encoding of information status in terms of 'oldness'/'newness' of information. An experimental study was conducted to find out how i…
This dissertation focuses on two different but related natural language processing problems, namely, question answering and question generation. Automated question answering (QA) is the process of finding answers to natural language questions. This problem has been studied since…
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the inference-making abilities of subjects of different language groups. Experiment 1 studied four language groups (English, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic) and compared subjects' responses to test sentences based upon inferences drawn…