This paper traces the representation of Yemen and Syria in President Obama’s speech addressed to 66th session UN General Assembly. In particular, focuses on syntactic selection agency choices Obama used ideologically represent Yemeni Syrian revolutions their supporters. We investigate how communicated interested messages which position USA vis-à-vis two people therein. The study arrived at conc...

Checking for readability or simplicity of texts is important for many institutional and individual users. Formulas for approximately measuring text readability have a long tradition. Usually, they exploit surface-oriented indicators like sentence length, word length, word frequency, etc. However, in many cases, this information is not adequate to realistically approximate the cognitive difficul...

There is a great deal of interest in characterizing the representations and processes that support visual word priming and written word identification more generally. On one view, these phenomena are supported by abstract orthographic representations that map together visually dissimilar exemplars of letters and words (e.g., the letters A/a map onto a common abstract letter code a*). On a secon...