The development of speech perception shows a dramatic transition between infancy and adulthood. Between 6 and 12 months, infants' initial ability to discriminate all phonetic units across the world's languages narrows-native discrimination increases while non-native discrimination shows a steep decline. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine whether brain oscillations in the theta band...

Great writers help keep a language efficient for discourse of all kinds. In doing so they produce exceptional texts which may defy Statistical Machine Translation by employing uncommon idiom. Such “turns of phrase” can enter into a Nation’s collective memory and form the basis from which compassion and conviction are conveyed during important national discourse. Communities that unite across la...

The purpose of the current study was to examine frequently used boosters in academic articles written by Native (NESs) and Non-native (NNESs) Speakers English (Turkish researchers) field Language Teaching. Investigating whether differences exist use these markers between NESs NNESs’ another aim study. Within this purpose, data collected from one hundred (NESs= 50, NNESs= 50 articles) published ...

In 1956, the shallow-water grouper Cephalopholis argus was introduced from Moorea (French Polynesia), where grouper diversity (14 species) is high, to the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI), where only 2 rare native deep-water groupers occur. In this non-native environment, the species has flourished and has become the dominant apex predator on many reefs. In the present study, a comparison of non-nat...