Access, continuity, or both

Preferred Lexical Access Route in Persian Learners of English: Associative, Semantic or Both

Background: Words in the Mental Lexicon (ML) construct semantic field through associative and/ or semantic connections, with a pervasive native speaker preference for the former. Non-native preferences, however, demand further inquiry. Previous studies have revealed inconsistent Lexical Access (LA) patterns due to the limitations in the methodology and response categorization. Objectives: To f...

Speed Up, Slow Down or Both? Investigating the Contemporary Cities

Speed as a crucial phenomenon of modernism affects individual and collective life of human being and changes the traits of the places people live in. Increasing speed is the demand of the modern era, though on the other side in recent years there is a contrary incline towards slowing down different aspects of life. In view of this, the dualities in between social features of Speed up and slow d...

Continuity of care versus speed of access.

improving and that communication is best learnt through observation in clinical situations. If the role models that medical students and junior doctors are observing are poor communicators how do we expect these learners to improve? I agree that observation and reflection is an important part of the experiential learning process, as is practising skills. But we know that in clinical situation l...

Frames or Objects , or Both ?

This paper discusses the differences and similarities of object-oriented programming systems and frame systems, and advocates the amalgamation of these two kinds of systems. A frame system called BEEF is introduced. It provides, in addition to frame system characteristics, the basic functionality and ease of use of an object-oriented extension of Common Lisp, making it well suited for knowledge...

Acquiring Spanish Psych-Verbs: Maturation or Continuity?