The structure of phonological processing for typically developing children has been debated over the past two decades. Recent research has indicated that phonological processing is best explained by a single underlying phonological ability (e.g., Anthony and Lonigan, 2004). The current study had two goals. The first goal was to determine the structure of phonological processing for school-age c...

Computer languages are usually lumped together into broad ’paradigms’, leaving us in want of a finer classification of kinds of language. Theories distinguishing between ’genuine differences’ in language has been called for, and we propose that such differences can be observed through a notion of expressive mode. We outline this concept, propose how it could be operationalized and indicate a po...

Macros improve expressiveness, concision, abstraction, and language interoperability without changing the programming language itself. They are indispensable for building increasingly prevalent multilingual applications. Unfortunately, existing macro systems are wellencapsulated but unsafe (e.g., the C preprocessor) or are safe but tightlyintegrated with the language implementation (e.g., Schem...

This critical review examines whether expressive language characteristics are able to distinguish children with Specific Language Impairment from children who are learning English as a Second Language. Overall, the research suggests that there is significant overlap between the two groups in the amount and types of errors made on expressive language tasks such as use of tense and morphology. Ho...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine receptive and expressive language development in children who received simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) between 5 and 18 months of age and to compare the results with language development in chronologically age-matched children with normal hearing. METHODS The study used a prospective, longitudinal matched-group design. Data w...

Background: Syntax has a high importance among linguistic parameters and the prevalence of syntax deficits is relatively high in children with language disorders. As such, independent examination of syntax in language development is of paramount importance. In this regard, Iranian language pathologists are faced with the lack of standardized tests. The present study aimed to determine the most ...

In defining conventional implicature, Grice (1975) supplied terminology for reasoning about a group of secondary lexical entailments indicating speakers’ attitudes toward (parts of) their main assertions. The passage in question is potentially ground breaking: it draws a restrictive boundary around (Grice’s) pragmatic theory, and it homes in on a complex mode of expression that operates under t...

Improvised acting is a viable technique to study expressive human communication and to shed light into actors’ creativity. The USC CreativeIT database provides a novel, freely-available multimodal resource for the study of theatrical improvisation and rich expressive human behavior (speech and body language) in dyadic interactions. The theoretical design of the database is based on the well-est...

background:  the  mississippi  aphasia  screening test (mast) is a brief screening test for assessing the expressive and receptive language abilities in patients with  aphasia.  the  objective  of  the  study  was  to develop and validate the persian version of the mast (mastp) as a screening test for language disorders in patients with post-stroke aphasia. methods: this study used a cross-sect...