They constructed the test material in a way that grammatical and non-grammatical strings were similar in chunk strengths, that is, the frequency with which the adjacent elements appear in the strings.
In those days, most language courses focused on arcane grammatical details, the functional equivalent of the technical material that often bedevils introductory economics students.
Participants were asked questions on the structure of the acquired material to assess which aspects of the grammatical system they had learned and were able to report.
Guowen Yang in Chapter 9 discusses range characteristics in material clauses in Mandarin Chinese by comparing its grammatical behavior with that of goal and its counterpart in English.
Strikingly, it is only in 1.9% of the instances where a material action was construed that patients identified themselves as grammatical Patient or Goal which shows that patienthood, in practice, does not conform to the grammatical notion of patienthood.
New text materials were published in 1953, closely followed by both grammatical and vocabulary studies as well as a standard dictionary of the language (1959).
Make sure your application materials are easy to read and free of spelling and grammatical errors.
(Me dedo! Quaeso, noli iacere tela ballista!: "I surrender! Please do not fire your catapult!") "Carpe Diem," on the other hand, focuses on the language's raw materials, especially the noun and verb endings that correspond to the various grammatical roles a word can play.
Thus Whorf seems to require translators and interpreters of non-Indo-European language materials in particular to think about how best to explicate abstract classifications based on grammatical categories and lexical items not found in one of the languages under study.
Of the cluster of disciplines that make up the grammatical sciences, especially 'ilm al-wad' (roughly, semantics) and 'ilm al-balâgha (roughly, rhetoric) compete to cover material covered by parts of Aristotelian logic.
