Pauses during continuous speech, particularly those that occur within clauses, are thought to reflect the planning of forthcoming verbal output. We used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to examine their neural correlates. Six volunteers were scanned while describing seven Rorschach inkblots, producing 3 min of speech per inkblot. In an event-related design, the level of blood oxygen...

Biproduct dagger categories serve as models for natural language. In particular, the biproduct dagger category of finite dimensional vector spaces over the field of real numbers accommodates both the extensional models of predicate calculus and the intensional models of quantum logic. The morphisms representing the extensional meanings of a grammatical string are translated to morphisms represe...

the verb in russian language is a part of speech which involves several grammatical features. regarding methods of expressing the person, we can classify it in two major groups: personal verbs and non-personal verbs. the difference of these two groups is in their expression and inexpression of the person as a grammatical category. the purpose of this research is to consider ways of declaring th...

exaggeration is a rhetoric picture which is often used to arrange the speech and to attract the audience. in exaggeration, the poet, shows his meanings by the use of two methods, to make the subject greater or smaller, and in fact he develops his speech by the use of these rhetorical devices and emphatics in order to make the meaning more understandable. most rhetoricians, as they introduce the...

A new product launch is a popular strategy for companies to promote products, publicize brand image, and connect with customers. It conforms the four stages of AIDA model: awareness, interest, desire action. To introduce presentation speech conveys plethora interpersonal meanings. Based on model, this thesis analyzes meaning Apple’s current CEO Tim Cook’s speeches during launches through mood, ...

introduction: hearing loss from birth up to the age of 3 years has a negative effect on speech/language development and results in sensory, cognitive, emotional, and academic defects in adulthood by causing delayed development of communicative-linguistic abilities. the present study was performed in order to assess the effect of early intervention on language development in persian children age...

Although the semantic analysis and the grammatical distribution are treated as separate issues in linguistic theories, there is a close interconnection between the two in that the differences in the lexical meanings are often realized at the levels both of the grammatical function and of the lexical collocation. This is the basic assumption utilized when we design and develop Knowledge Base of ...

A concretizing link is an expression of a specific relationship between concepts using unique means relation. Given that, affixes and forms verbs have particular place. This article considers the conditions infinitive (-ырга/-ергә/-рга) conditional mood verb (-са/-сә). These in Tatar grammars as part subordinate predicate clause are inflectional forms, that is, linking words. The authors study ...

Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word forms and their meanings can facilitate language learning (e.g., in the form of sound symbolism or cues to grammatical categories). Yet, paradoxically from a learning viewpoint, most words have an arbitrary form-meaning mapping. We hypothesized that this paradox may reflect a division of labor between two differ...