This study compares lexical retrieval amongst monolinguals and intermediate bilinguals and advanced bilinguals. It also investigates the possible effects of their language learning strategies on their respective lexical retrieval advantage. The study used a mixed methods design and the groups consisted of 20 Persian near-monolinguals, 20 Persian-English intermediate level bilinguals, and 20 Per...

Title of dissertation: FORM, MEANING AND CONTEXT IN LEXICAL ACCESS: MEG AND BEHAVIORAL EVIDENCE Diogo Almeida, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor David Poeppel Department of Linguistics One of the main challenges in the study of cognition is how to connect brain activity to cognitive processes. In the domain of language, this requires coordination between two differe...

Abstract In the Geling 葛陵 Chu 楚 manuscripts, there are a number of characters usually transcribed as yan 延 in published transcriptions. This essay suggests tentative interpretation these characters. The first section examines four types direct transcriptions and their interpretive Then, argues variations graphic rather than lexical. its context, phrase zhong 延鐘 can be translated “melodic bells,...

We present a study that investigates that factors that determine what makes a good lexical substitution. We begin by observing that there is a correlation between the corpus frequency of words and the number of WordNet senses they have, and hypothesise that readers might prefer common, but more ambiguous words over less ambiguous but also less common ones. We identify four properties of a word ...

Sub-categorized arguments introduced by the French preposition pour has been under-studied in previous work, as can be seen from the incompleteness of existing lexical-syntactic resources in that regard. In this paper, we briefly introduce the various types of sub-categorization in pour, which are to be distinguished from occurrences of pour as a discourse connective. We describe how we added a...

This paper is concerned with the semantics of so-called plurals extension, a class lexical such as mountains, cliffs, skies, Hebrides, and Pyrenees. While similar on surface to regular plural nouns, they behave differently in certain regards, including their compatibility determiners, interpretation half N partitives possibility occur weak definites. We will argue that extension denote predicat...

The article considers the peculiarities of verbalization concept ENVIRONMENT by neologisms that have appeared in English during last three years. Lexical units modern English, emergence which was due to environmental processes occurring world, been studied. key notions considered, and its representation has analyzed. classification selected lexical items according following groups given: “envir...

This article proposes a ‘topological’ reinterpretation of the extended nominal architecture in relation to southern Italo-Romance vocatives with and without allocuzione inversa (‘address inversion’, Renzi 1968), phenomenon involving ‘inverse’ lexical indexation speaker-addressee relationship (reg.It. Mangia, papà! ‘Eat up, little one!’, father child). Topological Mapping Theory (Longobardi 2005...

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...