Following the proposal that consonants are more involved than vowels in coding the lexicon (Nespor, Peña & Mehler, 2003), an early lexical consonant bias was found from age 1;2 in French but an equal sensitivity to consonants and vowels from 1;0 to 2;0 in English. As different tasks were used in French and English, we sought to clarify this ambiguity by using an interactive word-learning study ...

Hedges, as tools to express tentativeness and doubt, have been studied in plenty of research papers in the Iranian EFL research setting. However, their use in a learner corpus, portraying Iranian learner English, is in need of more research attention. With this end in view, this study aimed at investigating how Iranian EFL learners who have majored in English-related fields in Iran deployed hed...

in this article , firstly a brief survey of iranian-british official political relations are considered . then , it would be studied cultural relations of two countries in the qajar era .role of the english in these relations are evaluated in sections . first , actors of the relations are noted i four groups in  cluding diplomats , military forces , tourists and other scholars and researchers ....

is the rule. The care of patients in the wards in America is " largely in the hands of untrained and often ignorant attendants, the proportion of graduate nurses* to patients in 1946 being only 1 to 143, whereas it has apparently not occurred to the British that the nursing care of the mentally ill could conceivably be entrusted to anyone except a nurse Dr. Pratt, in this article, refers to the...

Acoustic measurements of the rhythm of Malay were made using a version the North Wind and the Sun passage translated into Malay, and these are compared with similar measurements for Standard Southern British English. The results suggest that Malay has more syllable-based rhythm than British English. However, caution is advisable in drawing this conclusion, as many of the decisions about syllabi...

In order to test the validity of authors’ command-response model for the generation of F0 contours in the analysis and interpretation ofF0 contours of British English,F0 contours of utterances containing sections that are not usually found in those of the common Japanese are analyzed. The results indicate that these F0 contours can actually be generated by selecting appropriate patterns of comm...

Objective of the work is speaker independent recognition of vowels of British English. Back propagation is one of the simplest and most widely used methods for supervised training of multi layer neural networks. In this paper we use parallel implementation of Backpropagation (BP) on Master – Slave architecture to recognize speaker independent eleven steady state vowels of British English. We pe...

Different issues have been probed in learner corpus research since the late 1980s.However, taking the im- portance of meta discourse markers (MDMs) in signposting academic discourse, their use in Iranian EFL learners‟ academic essays is an area of research in need of a more serious analysis. Contributing to this line of investigation, this paper reports a corpus-based study of the use of MDMs i...