Hamideh Marefat
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Tehran, Iran
[ 1 ] - Semantic Priming Effect on Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity Resolution in L2
This study examined whether processing ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (RCs) following a complex determiner phrase (DP) by Persian-speaking learners of L2 English with different proficiency and working memory capacities (WMCs) is affected by semantic priming. The semantic relationship studied was one between the subject/verb of the main clause and one of the DPs in the complex D...
[ 2 ] - Genre analysis of literature research article abstracts: A cross-linguistic, cross-cultural study
Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of Research Articles (RAs) in various languages and fields abound; however, only scant attention has been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different ...
[ 3 ] - Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Adult Persian Learners: Focus on Resumptive Pronouns
Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (2007) observed that uninterpretable features are unavailable in second language (L2) acquisition after the critical period. In this paper, we verify this claim by providing evidence from Persian speaking learners of English as an L2 on the status of resumptive pronouns (RPs) as uniterpretable features. Unlike English which does not allow RPs, Persian shows various b...
[ 4 ] - پردازش ضمایر فاعلی آشکار و ناملفوظ در فارسی
این مقاله به چگونگی پردازش ضمایر آشکار و ناملفوظ توسط گویشوران فارسی می‌پردازد. فرضیه‌های گوناگونی برای تفسیر این ضمایر مطرح است و هر کدام پیش‌بینی ویژهای برای گزینش مرجع دارند. یکی از این فرضیه‌ها «فرضیه جایگاه مرجع» است که پیش‌بینی می‌کند پردازشگر برای ضمیر ناملفوظ مرجعی را که در جایگاه مخصص صرفی می‌باشد و برای ضمیر آشکار مرجعی را که در جایگاهی پایین‌تر از مخصص صرفی است ترجیح می‌دهد. فرضیه دی...
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