Russian-English bilingual and English monolingual participants were tested on the Picture-Word Interference task modified for use with an eye-tracker. Distractor words were 1) non-words in English, but viable phonological words in Russian, 2) control bigram matched non-word stimuli, and 3) English translations of the Russian words. Russian-English bilinguals looked at the phonological Russian w...

Russian language acquisition requires deep and intensive studying of the concept of verbs of motion. There is a strong opinion that verbs of motion are one of the hardest concepts in the Russian language. However, it is an important issue, as motion verbs are among the most used in any language and nowadays there are hundreds of expressions with these verbs which can be heard quite frequently i...

Given that Mandarin is a verb-serializing language, Russian a satellite-framed language, and Spanish a verb-framed language, the current study examines Mandarin college students’ acquisition of Russian and Spanish as L2, to understand the strength of L1 preferences for expression of PATH on Russian and Spanish majors’ second language acquisition in Taiwan. Based on oral narrative data, the stud...

The main problems of a conversational Russian speech recognition system development are variability of pronunciation, free word-order in sentences and presence of speech disfluencies. In the paper, pronunciation variability is modeled by creation of multiple word transcriptions. A syntacticstatistical language model that takes into account long-distant word dependencies is proposed for Russian ...

The article deals with a comprehensive analysis of the legal prescriptions of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation aimed at the liberalization and humanization of the criminal policy in the context of international norms. The author examines the procedure of the imposition of a limit of the penalties for serious and very serious crimes. The content of the principle of humanization of the...

For our activities within the CLEF 2001 evaluation, Berkeley group one participated in the bilingual, multilingual and GIRT tasks focussing on the use of Russian queries. Performance on the Russian queries !English documents bilingual task was excellent, comparable to performance using German queries. For the multilingual task we utilized English as a pivot language between Russian and German a...

the verb in russian language is a part of speech which involves several grammatical features. regarding methods of expressing the person, we can classify it in two major groups: personal verbs and non-personal verbs. the difference of these two groups is in their expression and inexpression of the person as a grammatical category. the purpose of this research is to consider ways of declaring th...

Thai learners of Russian language produced sounds of their mother tongue as well as sounds from a previously learned language, English, along with normative Russian consonants. The negative results of interference are caused by the specific structure of the Thai language and absence of the equivalents of Russian consonants. The results permit me to conclude that the character of interference de...

This article touches upon the different ways of specialization of courts and judges that exist under the legislation of the Russian Federation. The lack of a unified and circumspect approach is noted. The formation of specialized courts, according to the national legislation, takes the form of their establishing within the existing subsystems of regular and arbitration courts. As for the specia...

Address: 1State Pediatric Medical Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2Scientific and Research Institute of Hematology and Transfusiology, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, 3Federal Center of Heart, Blood and Endocrinology, named by V.A. Almazov, SaintPetersburg, Russian Federation and 4Federal Scientific and Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Mosco...