Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract We investigated whether children (3-and 4-year-olds) and adults can use the active passive alternation – essentially a choice of subject– in a way...

The present study seeks to evaluate bilinguals’ attitudes towards the contact forms that are manifested in the speech of Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States, and the factors that contribute to this linguistic assessment. Towards that end, bilinguals of diverse proficiencies are presented with five versions of the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood/La Caperucita Roja: a normative Spani...

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of lexicon-based debates on the felicity of lexical equivalents in translating literary texts by iranian efl learners.  to fulfill the purpose of this study, 59 university students, majoring in english translation, were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups from a total of 73 students based on their performance on a mock toe...

one of the important issues in the monotheistic religions is the felicity and perfection of man. this felicity in islam and christianity is the felicitous transformation of the person so that one becomes near to god or achieves proximity to him. from the perspective of the noble qur’an and the new testament, this is a real ontological transformation, although it is gradual. according to these t...

Teaching is a difficult task. It requires leader teacher to build an effective classroom environment. To be efficient in class, it him create teaching strategies which consider successful ingredients improve the goodness of education .Successful builds rational thinking for competent based innovative education. Cognitive activation strategy one 21st century stimulate process learning opportunit...

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we intend to contribute the debate on identification features which syntactic locality expressed in terms featural Relativized Minimality/ fRM principle appears be sensitive (Rizzi 2004; Friedmann, Belletti & Rizzi 2009); second, at providing a better characterization distributional and interpretive properties process a-marking Topic position Ita...

According to the ‘grammatical account’, scalar implicatures are triggered by a covert exhaustification operator present in logical form. This account covers considerable empirical ground, but there is peculiar pattern that resists treatment given its usual implementation. The centers on odd assertions like #Most lions mammals and #Some Italians come from beautiful country, which seem trigger co...

Folklore has it that counterfactual Sobel sequences favor a variably strict analysis of conditionals over its plainly strict alternative. Recent discussions of the lore have focussed on the question whether data about reverse counterfactual Sobel sequences actually speak in favor of a dynamic revival of the strict analysis. This paper takes the discussion into a new direction by looking at stra...

I present and discuss results of the experiment in which I investigate processing of so-called superlative quantifiers, such as at most n and at least n (where n represents a bare numeral), as well as their (presumably) logically equivalent though linguistically different forms, i.e. the disjunctive and the comparative form. Generalized Quantifier Theory (GQT ) defines those superlative quantif...

I conducted three experiments in which I investigated how people use the definite article with entities that have never been explicitly introduced. I claim that using the definite article to determine a particular entity presupposes that that entity has a preestablished discourse referent. If an explicit discourse referent has not been supplied by previous context, additional presuppositions mu...