abstractthe aim of intercultural translation is to communicate. communication is acted via verbal as well as visual means. the interaction of verbal and visual means of communication makes a set of complex situations which demand special attention in translation. one context in which the interaction of visual and verbal elements gets vital importance is children’s picture books. color is an int...

The elegant Stalnaker/Lewis semantics for counterfactual conditonals works with distances between models. But human beings certainly have no tables of models and distances in their head. We begin here an investigation using a more realistic picture, based on findings in neuroscience. We call it a pre-semantics, as its meaning is not a description of the world, but of the brain, whose structure ...

When a speaker says the name of a color, the color they picture is not necessarily the same as the listener imagines. Color is a grounded semantic task, but that grounding is not a single value as the most recent works on color-generation do. Rather proper understanding of color language requires the capacity to map a sequence of words is to a distribution in color space. To achieve this, we pr...

0749-596X/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011.01.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Radboud Unive ders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Spinoza Building B.01.05, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 Netherlands. E-mail address: [email protected] (V. Piai). Disagreement exists about whether lexical selection in word production is a competitive process. Competition pre...

cognitive linguistics gives the most inclusive, consistent description of how language is organized, used and learned to date. cognitive linguistics contains a great number of concepts that are useful to second language learners.  if-clauses in english, on the other hand, remain intriguing for foreign language learners to struggle with, due to their intrinsic intricacies. efl grammar books are ...

The organization of learning and memory in the brain is widely held to be made of functionally distinct memory systems. It is important to identify how these complex neural systems interact with one another. This thesis investigates the interaction of the systems involved to solve a simple discrimination task. Acquisition of this task can be supported by hippocampal and non-hippocampal systems....

The current study aimed to examine the effects of strategic planning, online planning, strategic planning and online planning combined (joint planning), and no planning on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency of oral productions in two simple and complex narrative tasks. Eighty advanced EFL learners performed one simple narrative task and a complex narrative task with 20 minutes in between. Th...