In fact students have already received almost totally grammatical rules during their several years study, but they often lack of the ability to actually use English and to understand the use in normal intercultural communication. Misunderstandings caused by cultural differences have involved them frequently in intercultural miscommunication. The purpose of this paper is to present the concept o...

The prima facie unbounded nature of natural language, contrasted with the finite character of our memory and computational resources, is often taken to warrant a recursive language processing mechanism. The widely held distinction between an idealized infinite grammatical competence and the actual finite natural language performance provides further support for a recursive processor. In this pa...

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a clinical dementia syndrome with early symptoms of language dysfunction. Postmortem findings are varied and include Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), both tauopathies and TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43) proteinopathies. Clinical-pathological correlations in PPA are complex but the presence in the clinical profile of agrammatis...

In a number of studies, the acquisition of restrictive relative clauses (RCs) shows contrasting findings regarding comprehension and production, with the former usually delayed up to the age of 5. As previously claimed in the literature, we suggest that this delay is a task artefact and we present a new Agent selection task for the assessment of restrictive RCs. Data from 3to 7-year-old Italian...

This article examines the problem of using effective methods teaching grammatical aspect a second foreign language. It highlights importance skills and abilities for successful formation language communicative competence. is revealed that methodology grammar should be based on rational combination comparative communicative-cognitive approaches. The authors lay emphasis necessity relying first l...

In the paper, on basis of auditory analysis English spoken anecdotes authors come up with system prosodic means that serve to create text humorous effect. To define specificity a complex interaction emotional, pragmatic, structural and semantic factors means’ functioning in anecdotes, we substantiated two algorithmic models presenting story-line development: one being similar structure fairy ta...

Lexical bundles studies are still limited in relation to the use of verb phrase-based bundles, specifically passive forms academic writing. This study reveals lexico-grammatical patterns and functional categories 409,373-word Malaysian Polytechnics Electronic Engineering Learner Corpus (MyPolyEELC) comparison British Academic Written English (BAWE) 29,530-word sub-corpus. The Sketch Engine lexi...

Human language, and grammatical competence in particular, relies on a set of computational operations that, in its entirety, is not observed in other animals. Such uniqueness leaves open the possibility that components of our linguistic competence are shared with other animals, having evolved for non-linguistic functions. Here, we explore this problem from a comparative perspective, asking whet...

the invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international english-medium journals. this study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

the present study explored the intensity level of authorial voice in relation to the quality of argumentative writing. 42 undergraduate learners of english as a foreign language (36 girls and 6 boys) spent 45 minutes to individually complete in-class position-taking writing tasks for three weeks. their overall academic writing quality scores assigned based on portfolio assessment were studied i...