The formations of bare-stem, closed compound nouns in English

Modelling semantic transparency in English compound nouns

Semantic transparency is known to play an important role in the storage and processing of complex words (e.g. Marslen-Wilson et al. 1994), and human raters of transparency achieve high levels of agreement (e.g. Frisson et al. 2008, Munro et al. 2010). In the case of noun-noun compounds, overall transparency is largely determined by the transparency of the individual constituents. For example, R...

study of cohesive devices in the textbook of english for the students of apsychology by rastegarpour

this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese

Bare Nouns and the Morphosyntax Of

The syntax and semantics of bare nominal expressions has been the subject of much research over the past few years. Two fundamental distinctions are generally assumed: bare nominals are generally restricted to plural and mass terms (unless they are proper names) and the "interesting" cases of bare nominals are those that appear in argument positions. We will call the first distinction the singu...

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...