This article examines the production of prose texts in pre-Alfredian England. After reviewing conventional ideas regarding foundational role assigned to Alfred, king Wessex, creation Old English genre, discussion turns a quite considerable number non-poetic which were demonstrably produced at an earlier time, asking whether these can be regarded as prose. Following investigation medieval and mo...

The objective of the current investigation is to replicate the results of a previous study on subgrouping of poor readers. One important aim of the study to be replicated was to develop tools, not only for identifying poor readers, which is a rather straightforward task, but also for examining the pattern of poor reading based on a theoretical analysis of the reading process. Eight distinct sub...

Prior work has suggested that open- and closed-class words elicit negative components in the event-related potential (ERP) that differ in timing and scalp distribution. We tested this hypothesis against the possibility that the word-class effects are attributable to quantitative differences in word length and frequency. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 13 scalp sites whi...

prose writing was a popular practice in pre-islamic period as well as in islamic one but arabic prose matured in islamic period, so that, underlay islamic civilization and the influence of the holy quran, it was gradually changed and lost some of its primitive qualities. the changes are related not only to these of a new vocabulary and structure but of the content،subject matter and the ways of...

â  â  avicenna’s role in arabic literature â  â  nasrollah shameli * â  hamid ahmadian ** â  â  abstract â  â  the master and doyen, avicenna, is one of the prominent savants of the fourth century a.h. besides medicine and philosophy, he was a master in sciences of his time, and was proficient in arabic literature. he has peerless anthologies in poetry and prose, in both arabic and persian li...

Memory for details of text generally declines relatively rapidly, whereas memory for propositional and context-based meanings is generally more resilient over time. In the present study, we investigated short-term memory for two kinds of verbal material: prose and poetry. Participants heard or read prose stories or poems in which aphrase near the start of the passage served as a target. The tex...

Eye-tracking was used to examine how younger and older adults use syntactic and semantic information to disambiguate noun/verb (NV) homographs (e.g., park). We find that young adults exhibit inflated first fixations to NV-homographs when only syntactic cues are available for disambiguation (i.e., in syntactic prose). This effect is eliminated with the addition of disambiguating semantic informa...