postposing is a feature of spoken language. it is a process that postposes a preverbal constituent to a position after the verb, without changing the overall meaning of the sentence. in this study we focus on this linguistic phenomenon and its relation to factors such as grammatical weight, definiteness, animacy and information structure. to investigate the occurrence of this process and its in...

Language production often happens in a visual context, for example when a speaker describes a picture. This raises the question whether visual factors interact with conceptual factors during linguistic encoding. To address this question, we present an eye-tracking experiment that manipulates visual clutter (density of objects in the scene) and animacy in a sentence production task using natural...

Dear Editor, I read the recent report on pregnancy, epilepsy and quality of life with a great interest. Lunardi et al. concluded that “pregnancy could be interpreted as a stressor and “In late pregnancy when this stressor was removed, women with epilepsy had improvement in their quality of life.” There are several concerns on this work. First, few subjects with imbalance controls might mean bia...

Tantrayukti is one among the techniques used by Acharyas for understanding and interpreting scientific literature of Ayurveda. defined as a methodology that helps us to interpret treatise correctly intelligently it enables set optimum standardization in interpretation material minimize subjective variation treatise. There are some controversies existing regarding enumeration definitions Tantray...