The left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) has been reported to be critically involved in syntactic processing, not only in first language (L1), but in second language (L2). Indeed, the leftward lateralization of the IFG has been shown to be correlated with the performance of a syntactic task in L2. Given that posterior language-related regions are systematically connected with the left IFG, the nex...

Adults of varying reading comprehension skill learned a set of previously unknown rare English words (e.g., gloaming) in three different learning conditions in which the type of word knowledge was manipulated. The words were presented in one of three conditions: (1) orthography-to-meaning (no phonology); (2) orthography-to-phonology (no meaning); and (3) phonology-to-meaning (no orthography). F...

A great deal of scholarship has gone into examining monophthongization as a phonological phenomenon occurring within the different chronological stages languages. Some studies have examined it sociolinguistic index dialectal variation while some others studied purely idiosyncratic matter same language variety. Almost all these been descriptive in nature. This study used derivational phonology a...

since the appearance of the knowledge of syntax the grammarians made an effort to develop the rules of arabic language, through which the quran was sent down. to do this they considered some principles:1 ) to develop the rules of syntax they only referred to the language of arab noble and eloquent tribes. 2) they developed the rules of syntax based on the widespread and prevalent language of ar...