Promotion as contrastive increase in expected fit

Contrastive Focus and Contrastive Topics in Greek

This paper puts forward the idea that in Greek contrast is an independent feature, represented in syntax by a preverbal position. Contrast can be assigned to diierent sorts of entities, topics and foci, once a set/list of contrasting alternatives/entities has been introduced or directly implied by the discourse. Evidence for an independent treatment of contrast is provided by similarities in th...

Universal contrastive analysis as a learning principle in CAPT

Cross-linguistic comparison is a good starting point for computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT). A comparison between the segment inventories of a learner’s mother tongue (L1) and the target language (L2) can be made on the basis of the IPA categories. Since these are claimed to reflect universal phonemic distinctions, mastering the contrasts in the target language in perception and pr...

Domain Parking: Not as Malicious as Expected

Domain parking is the practice of assigning a nonsense address to a domain when it is not in use in order to keep it ready for “live” use. This practice is peculiar because it indicates someone has administrative control over the domain name, does not have hardware ready to respond to requests, but wants the domain to appear active. A more appropriate response would seem to us to be that the do...

Canada-EU trade agreement expected to increase drug costs.

role of cultural iran in promotion of multilaieralism in central asia and caucasus

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...