Psycholinguistic Aspects of Slavic Phraseology: “Slavofraz-2016”

[Psycholinguistic aspects of fragile X chromosome syndrome].

Fragile X syndrome is the first cause of hereditary mental retardation. Numerous studies have approached the physical and behavioural phenotypes. This paper will review the main characteristics of speech and language in children with fragile X syndrome. Boys show a late language acquisition, differing comprehension and expression levels, good semantic and syntax acquisition, and speech problems...

Terminology, Phraseology, and Lexicography

This paper explores two aspects of word use and word meaning in terms of Sinclair's (1991, 1998) distinction between the open-choice principle (or terminological tendency) and the idiom principle (or phraseological tendency). Technical terms such as strobilation are rare, highly domain-specific, and of little phraseological interest, although the texts in which such word occur do tend to contai...

On the phraseology of stop words

Spoken language usually precedes language represented in writing. Children know how to speak and listen years before they learn to read and write. The history of language is estimated to be in the order of magnitude of hundreds of thousands of years, the history of writing in thousands of years. There are many language communities without writing, but only in the case of dead languages such as ...

Psycholinguistic studies of rendaku

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Psycholinguistic Studies of Entrenchment