OBJECTIVES To analyse the total number of newspaper articles citing the four leading general medical journals and to describe national citation patterns. DESIGN Quantitative content analysis. SETTING/SAMPLE Full text of 22 general newspapers in 14 countries over the period 2008-2015, collected from LexisNexis. The 14 countries have been categorised into four regions: the USA, the UK, Wester...

This study investigated vocabulary size and vocabulary composition in Greek children aged 1;6 to 2;11 using a Greek adaptation of Rescorla's Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). Participants were 273 toddlers coming from monolingual Greek-speaking families. Greek LDS data were compared with US LDS data obtained from the instrument's normative sample (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). V...

In this article, we study the structures that the Greek language employs to express quantification. By Greek, I am referring to the contemporary Greek spoken in the countries of Greece and Cyprus (an estimated total of 14 million speakers), and Greeks in diaspora (an estimated 5–6 million). It has long been customary, especially in the study of classics, to use the term ‘Greek’ to refer to the ...