The processing of Japanese wh-questions was investigated using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Unlike in English or German, a wh-element in Japanese need not be displaced from its canonical position, but instead needs a corresponding Q(uestion)-particle to indicate its interrogative scope. We tested to see if there were any processing correlates specific to these features of Japanese wh-...

Direct questions such as “Who saw Mary?” intuitively request for a certain type of answer, for instance a noun phrase “John” or a quantified noun phrase such as “A man”. Following the structured meaning approach to questions, we propose an analysis of wh-questions in typelogical grammar that incorporates the requirement for a certain type of answer into the type assigned to wh-phrases. Interest...

Background & Aims: Teucrium polium (TP) is amongst the commonly used remedies in traditional medicine. Some reports have claimed hepatotoxicity of TP but other reports have not supported it. This study was designed to evaluate the probable hepatotoxicity of TP. Methods: Petroleum ether fraction of TP was dissolved in DMSO and the final concentration was adjusted by diluting in physiologic salin...

Aim: Thalassemia major (TM) is a genetic hemoglobinopathy that causes chronic hemolytic anemia. Repeated blood transfusions are needed for treatment. Iron accumulation used to predict the risk of ventricular arrhythmia. We designed this study compare Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT ratio and Tp-e/QTc ratio, which novel reliable predictors show repolarization, between TM patients healthy control group.Me...

This experiment was designed to investigate whether the acoustic correlates of prosody of the pre-wh-part of the sentence differentiate in-situ-wh-questions from declaratives in Persian. To accomplish the purpose of this research 115 declaratives and 115 insitu-wh-questions were constructed. These sentences were elicited from eight Persian native speakers in a sentence elicitation task. The con...