Selection by competition in word production: Rejoinder to Janssen (2013)

Selection by competition in word production: Rejoinder to Janssen (2013)

Competition for clinical cases in Alzheimer’s disease (CCCAD) – Janssen-Cilag

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate stage between normal cognitive status and dementia. Treatment of MCI with cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) or other medications remains a controversial issue, although many experts agree that ChEIs are effective in the treatment of MCI, especially the amnestic type. We report a case of a 74-year-old Brazilian man, with memory complaints and mi...

Lexical Selection in Multi-Word Production

In multi-word utterances, target words need to be selected in the context of other target words. In the present study, three hypotheses were tested that differed in their assumptions about whether the lexical selection mechanism considers the activation levels of the other target lexical representations, and whether it takes into account their grammatical class properties. Participants produced...

The Significance of Education and Gender in Persian Word-selection

This study strives to investigate the importance of ‘education’ and ‘gender’, as two major sociolinguistic variables, in accepting or rejecting the words coined by the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL). A total of 500 students from state universities in Tehran were chosen as subjects and provided with a questionnaire consisting of 50 APLL equivalents. The respondents’ ac...

risk taking in english to persian translation process by novice iranian translators

این پژوهش به بررسی ریسک پذیری مترجمان تازه کار در طی فرآیند ترجمه از زبان انگلیسی به فارسی می پردازد. پژوهش درباره مترجمان به عنوان اولین خواننده متن مبدا از اهمیت به سزایی برخوردار است. مترجمان تازه کار (و حرفه ای) در طی فرآیند ترجمه با مشکلات متعددی روبرو می شوند که باعث عدم اطمینان آنها از متن ترجمه شده می شود. با توجه به اینکه عدم اطمینان به انجام ریسک منتهی می شود، هدف این پژوهش بررسی کیفی...