This paper reexamines the Ross (1967) claim that while interrogative (+Q) CPs are islands for whextraction, as shown in 1a and 1b, declarative (-Q) CPs are not, as shown in 2a and 2b. Alexopoulou and Keller (2007) report that English-speaking subjects find extractions in the Island condition to have degraded acceptability as compared to the Non-island condition, in non-embedded and embedded con...

Discourse particles constitute an important part of spoken language; they have a wide range pragmatic functions in interactional contexts. The object the present paper is to introduce Kurdish discourse particles, clarify their different contexts, and briefly sketch some aspects grammatical properties. I will focus on Sorani since this dialect has rich inventory that not so far been investigated...

Objectives: Voice is influenced by personality. However, it is still questionable which acoustic features are influenced by personality traits. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between acoustic characteristics and personality dimensions. Methods: Thirty-three participants with dysphonia and 33 participants without dysphonia were recruited to take part in this cross-sectional st...

rhetoric – which means correspondence of discourse to the conditions of the audience – has always been considered as the manifestation of the quran’s inimitability and matchlessness. accordingly, semantics has been invented to obtain an exact understanding of the different dimensions of rhetoric in discourse in general, and in the divine word in particular. this science sets out to inspect disc...