the present study endeavors to unravel the enigma of the psycholinguistic mechanisms underpinning bilingual mental lexicon by analyzing the issue of l1 lexicalization as a construct epitomizing an overarching framework. it involves 78 juniors at the islamic azad university, roudehen branch. the study inspects the impact of the interventionist/noninterventionist treatments on both sets of lexica...

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) systems are usually evaluated by comparing their absolute performance, in a fixed experimental setting, to other alternative algorithms and methods. However, little attention has been paid to analyze the lexical resources and the corpora defining the experimental settings and their possible interactions with the overall results obtained. In this paper we present ...

The lexical quality hypothesis (Perfetti & Hart, 2002) suggests that skilled reading requires high-quality lexical representations. In children, these representations are still developing, and it has been suggested that this development leads to more adult-like eye-movement behavior during the reading of connected text. To test this idea, a set of young adolescents (aged 11-13 years) completed ...

Based on Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis, this study explored the effects of task complexity on the lexical complexity of Iranian EFL students’ argumentative writing.This study was designed to explore the manipulation of cognitive task complexity along +/-single task dimension (a resource dispersing dimension in Robinson’s triadic framework) on Iranian EFL learners’ production in term of lexica...

This is a longitudinal case study of two Farsi-speaking children learning English: ‘Bernard’ and ‘Melissa’, who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection. The research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language (L2) acquisition of syntax regarding the presence or absence of copula as a functional category, as well as the role and degree of L1 influe...