Background :Older adults with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) show evidence of auditory and speech perception problems. In present study, it was examined whether these problems are due to impairments of concurrent auditory segregation procedure which is the basic level of auditory scene analysis and auditory organization in auditory scenes with competing sounds.   Methods : Concurrent auditory...

the problem of the hermeneutical circle is one of the contentious issues in philosophical hermeneutics. this paper, begins with focusing on the question as to whether what hermeneuts mean by a hermeneutical circle is in fact a real circle with no analogical sense involved. recognizing that this problem is not confined to the relation between part and whole, this study confines itself to explore...

textual coherence in cloudy semantic relations through which the relation is each piece of speech or writing acts as context. ma.k holliday and r.hassan played a key ale estabhshing the relationship in contchal shachre and the relationship among sentence elements. the believe that coherence applies to all kids of relations which link one element of the sentence to the element in previous senten...

l2 learners’ individual differences are crucial factors that deserve attention in l2 education. focusing on 2 main areas of individual differences (i.e., field (in)dependence and multiple intelligences), this study explored their relationships with l2 reading performance. participants were 64 tefl undergraduates and postgraduates. to assess the participats’ degree of field (in)dependence and mu...

athir al-din al-abhari has a treatise bibliographies have called “thamani ‘ashra mas’ala fi al-kalam” (i.e., 18 problems in theology) or “al-mas’il” (i.e. the problems), but our findings show that its real name is “tahrir al-dalail fi taqrir al-masa’il” (i.e. the introduction of arguments for the establishment of the problems). the treatise, which is presumably his only writing in kalam, contai...

predicates are words or groups of words which are considered as the most important semantic elements of the sentence. following manouilidou, almeida, schwartz and nair, this research investigates the nature of verb disorder in persian alzheimer patients. to this end, the property of thematic role assignment by three kinds of predicates has been focused upon. the first kind of predicates include...