the study of lexical bundles, among types of text analysis, is gaining importance over the others in the last century. the present study employed a frequency-based analysis approach to the use of lexical bundles. the discussion section of 60 political science articles, with corpora around 253,063 words were investigated in three aspects of structure, form, and function of lexical bundles. the p...

This study describes an approach for modeling the discourse coherence of spontaneous spoken responses in the context of automated assessment of non-native speech. Although the measurement of discourse coherence is typically a key metric in human scoring rubrics for assessments of spontaneous spoken language, little prior research has been done to assess a speaker’s coherence in the context of a...

We report an experiment that investigates how native and non-native Korean speakers’ interpretation of null pronouns in subject object position is influenced by structural discourse-level factors. compare speakers to L2 learners whose L1, Spanish, only has position. find guided factors as well coherence relations, with nulls being more sensitive relations than nulls. In contrast, our results su...

The green tiger shrimp (Penaeus semisulcatus) is an economically important species among native Iranian Shrimps. Microsatellite loci were developed for population genetic assessment of this species in Iranian waters. A total of eight polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed and tested on 40 individuals. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 5 to 12 with average of 7.38 per locus. Th...

Speech produced in noise (Lombard speech) is more intelligible than speech quiet (plain speech). Previous research on the Lombard intelligibility benefit focused almost entirely how native speakers produce and perceive speech. In this study, we investigate size of both (American-English) non-native (native Dutch) English for listeners (Dutch Spanish). We used a glimpsing metric to measure energ...

0736-5853/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.tele.2011.02.001 E-mail address: [email protected] Since the introduction of the Internet in Iran, Iranian women have used this medium not only as a means of accessing and disseminating information but also as the means of voicing their concerns about discriminatory laws and to participate in public discourse. In Iran, the Internet ...

Dittrichia viscosa (L.) Greuter is a shrub native to the Mediterranean, however, declared as very invasive species in Australia and North America. Environmental (climatic) socio-economic (land abandonment) changes can trigger different adaptive mechanisms cause behavior, influencing invasion dynamics. Motivated by recently noticed change of D. behavior its Mediterranean habitat, we discuss prop...

Researchers stated that learning and applying certain set of lexical bundles of native lecturers by non-native lecturers would help students improve their proficiency through incidental vocabulary input. The present study shed light on the lexical bundles in hard science lectures used by Native and Non-native lecturers in international universities with the main purpose of analyzing the structu...