introduction: one of the important evaluative indexes of language development is word finding ability. the application of formal assessment tools, such as twf-2, is the most common way of assessing this ability in western countries. there is not any formal assessment tool for assessment of this ability in iran. therefore this study aimed to determine the validity and reliability of persian vers...

We examined whether word recognition accuracy and latency of words children encounter during primary school across the upper grades can be predicted from form (word length, mean Levenshtein distance, frequency neighbors), meaning (free association network markers) exposure (corpus contextual diversity). As a measure recognition, 1454 (M = 10.1 years, SD 11.8 months, 52.4% girls) in grade 3, 4 5...

multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their coverage within the linguistics corpus. To this end, a corpus of 700 linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately ...