Recent neurolinguistic studies present somewhat conflicting evidence concerning the role of the inferior temporal cortex (IT) in visual word recognition within the first 200 ms after presentation. On the one hand, fMRI studies of the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) suggest that the IT might recover representations of the orthographic form of words. On the other hand, influential MEG studies of res...

This study uses eye-tracking to investigate how a brief exposure to the /ɪ/ /ɛ/ merger (between, e.g., pin and pen) affects subsequent lexical access. Merged and non-merged speakers gave instructions (e.g., “Click on the pencil”) for an object search task. Each voice was paired with a photo of a White or Black face in professional or non-professional dress, counter-balanced across participants....

background and aims: considering the fact that different components of linguistic knowledge are not equally vulnerable, this study investigated the knowledge of argument structure of verbs in a group of deaf persian speakers, as people who have been deprived of linguistic data during the early years of their childhood that is the critical period of language acquisition. methods: in this study, ...

Dhruvatara or Dhruva is the Polar star. On the Amarakoca of Amarasirhha (circa 300 A. D.), I, 2, 21a, 'dhruva auttanapadih syat,' Ksirasvamin (circa 1050 A. D.) comments as follows: dhruvati dhruvah kah/ uttanapadasyapatyam, risitvad risyandhaketi ani prapte, bahvaditvad in/According to this commentary, the etymology of dhruva is that the root 'dhru (6 Parasmaipada, to be firm, fixed)' takes 'k...

In this paper we address the theoretical debate about the representation and processing of derived words, presenting the results of a lexical decision task experiment aiming to investigate the visual recognition of Italian prefixed and suffixed words and nonwords. The study was specifically designed to test hypotheses stemming from the manipulation of two linguistic factors: (1) linearity (i.e....