In two experiments participants read words and pseudowords that belonged to either large or small lexical neighborhoods while event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from their scalps. In Experiment 1, participants made speeded lexical decisions to all items, while in Experiment 2 they engaged in a go/no-go semantic categorization task in which the critical items did not require an ...

Masked translation priming between languages with different scripts exhibits a marked asymmetry in lexical decision, with much stronger priming from L1 to L2 than from L2 to L1. This finding was confirmed in a lexical decision task with Chinese–English bilinguals who were late learners of English. Following a suggestion made by Bradley (1991), the experiment was repeated using a speeded episodi...

the most important and practical phase of analyzing the linguistic errors of second language learners is to find the solutions to decrease these errors. to that end, the present study examined translation strategy to decrease the number of grammatical and lexical errors of chinese language learners learning persian. twelve chinese language learners were asked to write a text in two stages. firs...

This paper investigates how the theme of uprising is conveyed in Bob Marley’s final music album by the name “Uprising”. Through the methodological lenses of multimodality, attention is focused on how the album cover design, lexical items, literary devices, and other aesthetic ways such as the titles of the ten songs of the album and their order of arrangement contribute to the overall theme of ...

A b s t r a c t In this paper we discuss the results of experiments which use a context, essentially an ordered set of lexical items, as the seed from which to build a network representing statistically important relationships among lexical items in some corpus. A metric is then applied to the nodes in the network in order to discover those pairs of items related by high indices of similarity. ...

The problem of machine translation can be viewed as consisting of two phases: (a) lexical choice phase where appropriate target language lexical items (words or phrases) are chosen for each source language lexical item and (b) reordering phase where the chosen target language lexical items are reordered to produce a meaningful target language string. In earlier work we have shown that nite-stat...

This paper describes a new hybrid term extraction technique for technical corpora. Our maingoal is to reduce the amount of noise in the list of candidate terms by restricting the lexicalitems that can appear inside candidate terms. In order to do so, we base our term extractionprocess on lexical items selected by a statistical test that targets items that are highly specificto t...

The year 2009 has witnessed a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1. Despite the high exposure on the mass media, few researches have been conducted on the discourse related to the H1N1 event. This study examined six frequently-occurred lexical items in a pandemic (H1N1) corpus: influenza, pandemic, cases, virus, transmission and death, using Sinclair’s (2004) descri...

This research is entitled (Lexical Determiner Phrase in Sulaimani Sub Dialect), It an attempt to illustrate the views of phrase recognition general and project lexical determiner Kurdish-Sulaimani sub dialect particular. The significance is, (a) on one hand. depends identification items like (the project-making head) that are considered be mechanisms producing project. (b) essence itself provid...