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 ...

Four experiments examined effects of lexical stress on lexical access for recently learned words. Participants learned artificial lexicons (48 words) containing phonologically similar items and were tested on their knowledge in a 4-alternative forced-choice (4AFC) referent-selection task. Lexical stress differences did not reduce confusions between cohort items: KAdazu and kaDAzeI were confused...

Krio, like other pidgin languages, borrows lexical items from languages to a greater extent the English Language. These words “borrowing” and “usage” have resulted in some similarities phonological, morphological syntactic structures of both Languages. two are so linguistically related that usage differences between them can hardly be realized. As result, users unconsciously use Krio lexemes pl...

this article studies the generative grammar approach and some other theories driven from it to lexicon and lexical entries. generative grammar is known as a syntax-based theory, so some aspects of language which have been studied in this theory may have been ignored in other theories. this article shows that more attention has been given to lexicon and lexical entries since 50s. we may claim th...

We will argue that the beginnings of words are perceptual “islands of reliability” in connected speech, and that their perceptual and temporal properties allow them to drive critical aspects of spoken word recognition including lexical segmentation. This argument rests on three generalizations derived from research in speech science, phonology, and psycholinguistics. We suggest that word onsets...