Man and his Language. Conference in Honour of Professor Horecký

In Memory of Professor Ján Horecký - A Personal Recollection

Facing a second major event of computational linguistics in Prague in the history of Czech CL – the ACL Annual Meeting in June 2007 – we cannot leave the first such event – COLING 1982 – unmentioned. But alas – most unfortunately, we have to start with very sad news about the then President of the Congress, Professor Ján Horecký, who died on August 11th, 2006 in his hometown Stupava (near Brati...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Constantin Gaindric (in honour of his 70th birthday)

In honour of Keith Geddes on his 60th birthday

This issue celebrates the scientific career of Professor Keith Geddes, one of the key figures in symbolic computation and one of the creators of the Maple computer algebra system. This celebration began two years ago, in 2008, a year that marked several numerically significant events in Keith Geddes’ life and career: He was born 60 years prior in Saskatchewan; he began his research 40 years pri...

‏‎interpersonal function of language in subtitling

‏‎translation as a comunicative process is always said to be associated with various aspects of meaning loss or gain. subtitling as a mode of translating, due to special discoursal and textual conditions imposed upon it, is believed to be an obvious case of this loss or gain. presenting the spoken sound track of a film in writing and synchronizing the perception of this text by the viewers with...