This paper describes a new hybrid term extraction technique for technical corpora. Our maingoal is to reduce the amount of noise in the list of candidate terms by restricting the lexicalitems that can appear inside candidate terms. In order to do so, we base our term extractionprocess on lexical items selected by a statistical test that targets items that are highly specificto t...

Wewould like to begin by offering a new theoretical account of the duration-based part of the word length effect, inspired partly by the recent literature and partly by Service’s comments (this issue). Baddeley (1986) suggested that recall depends on the speed of a covert verbal rehearsal process. Cowan and colleagues have argued that it may, but that recall also depends on the speed of some so...

The year 2009 has witnessed a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1. Despite the high exposure on the mass media, few researches have been conducted on the discourse related to the H1N1 event. This study examined six frequently-occurred lexical items in a pandemic (H1N1) corpus: influenza, pandemic, cases, virus, transmission and death, using Sinclair’s (2004) descri...

One of the main ways to acquire unfamiliar words is to make guesses about words meaning. This study investigates the comparative effects of pictorial annotations and morphological instructions on Iranian EFL learners’ lexical inferencing ability. Considering homogeneity issues using PET (Preliminary English Test), the researchers assigned the participants into two experimental and one control g...

The purpose of the study was to activate the passive lexical knowledge through noticing and to investigate the effect of sentence writing as the post task of noticing activity on strengthening the effect of noticing. Forty-two Iranian female adult upper-intermediate English students of a state university in 2 homogenous groups participated in noticing the lexical items whose production were not...

The role of segment similarity in early (i.e., partially learned) lexical entries was assessed using artificial lexicons in a referential context. During a learning phase participants heard 40 nonsense words, each accompanied by an unfamiliar picture. In testing, participants heard the direction ‘‘Click on the [X]’’, and chose which of four pictures was the target (X). Target lexical items (e.g...

The importance and howness of language learning/ acquisition has been a great concern for decades. There are many factors that play important roles in this regard. This research compared the performance of native Persian and English elementary students to see if there is any significant difference between the two groups and which type of collocation they performed better within the groups. For ...

Slow neural oscillations (~1-15 Hz) are thought to orchestrate the neural processes of spoken language comprehension. However, functional subdivisions within this broad range of frequencies are disputed, with most studies hypothesizing only about single frequency bands. The present study utilizes an established paradigm of spoken word recognition (lexical decision) to test the hypothesis that w...

Auditory lexical processing starts within 200 ms after onset of the critical stimulus. Here, we used electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate whether (1) the so-called N200 effect can be triggered by single-item lexical context, and (2) such effects are robust against temporal violations of the signal. We presented items in which lexical status (i.e., is the stimulus a word or a pseudoword?)...