Traditionally, the notion of metaphor has been conceived as a figure speech used in poetry and prose so far. In Lakoffian paradigm, however, metaphors are not confined to literary language; they located everyday language shape way one conceptualizes mental domain via another. Thus, abstract concepts like life, time, state, change expressed metaphorically (Lakoff, 1993). this study, metonyms kal...

the present study attempts to investigate parsing preferences (early vs. late closure) of native and l2 learners of both english and persian when they read ambiguous relative clauses. the purpose is to find out if l2 learners process l2 linguistic input in the way monolingual speakers of that language do. the participants took tests including 10 test sentences plus 10 distractors, each followed...

we give some new results on sparse signal recovery in the presence of noise, forweighted spaces. traditionally, were used dictionaries that have the norm equal to 1, but, forrandom dictionaries this condition is rarely satised. moreover, we give better estimationsthen the ones given recently by cai, wang and xu.

Social and cultural factors shape the linguistic perception of colour. At same time, colour terms co-create image world, which allows us to interpret reality profile our statements beliefs. This paper presents six basic terms: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue (both as adjectives nouns) in five different images world following languages: English, French, Italian, Polish, Japanese. The meth...

Text annotations are literacy practices that not uncommon in the reading experience of university students. Annotations may be multilingual, monolingual, or multimodal. Despite their enormous diagnostic potentials, have been widely investigated for what they can reveal about cognitive processes involved academic reading. In other words, there has limited exploration insights signs (verbal and n...

We give some new results on sparse signal recovery in the presence of noise, for weighted spaces. Traditionally, were used dictionaries that have the norm equal to 1, but, for random dictionaries this condition is rarely satised. Moreover, we give better estimations then the ones given recently by Cai, Wang and Xu.

Given that Mandarin is a tone language and English is not, the present study investigated the perception of Mandarin tones in young school-aged children with or without tone language exposure. Mandarin Monolingual (MM), English-Mandarin Bilingual (EMB) and English Monolingual (EM) children aged 6 to 8 years participated in tone identification and discrimination tasks. Tone identification and di...