The explosion of information technology has led to a substantial growth in quantity, diversity and complexity of linguistic data accessible over the internet. The lack of interoperability between linguistic and language resources represents a major challenge that needs to be addressed, in particular, if information from different sources is to be combined, like, say, machine-readable lexicons, ...

The present study aimed to investigate the translation into English by Alaeddin Pazargadi of Parvin E’tesami’s poems; in particular, it attempted to analyze the structural elements such as verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in them. Considering the relationship between Linguistics and Translation Studies, the theoretical framewor...

Theories of sentence production based on speech errors divide lexical-syntactic integration p ro cesses into two components. The first involves formulating an abstract structural representation that includes semantically specified lexical items. The second involves placing phonologically specified content words into a syntactic frame whose configuration is determined by the initial structural r...

Crowley, Terry (edited by John Lynch), The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu). Canberra: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2006, xvi + 213 pp. [Pacific Linguistics 574.] ISBN 0858835649. Price: AUD 54.50 (paperback). Crowley, Terry (edited by John Lynch), Tape: a declining language of Malakula (Vanuatu). Canberra: ...

Abstract The credibility of conclusions arrived at in quantitative research depends, to a large extent, on the quality data collection instruments used quantify language and non-language constructs. Despite this, into Applied Linguistics particularly thesis genre remains limited. This study examined reported reliability 211 two samples domestic international theses Linguistics. following qualit...

Two experiments examined the facilitation that occurs when prime and target words shareinitial phonemes in a shadowing task using 25% of related prime-target pairs and 50 ms ISI.Experiment 1 replicated the results described by Spinelli, Segui and Radeau (2001) showing thatthe processing of bisyllabic target words (coulisse /kulis/) was facilitated by monosyllabic primes(cou /ku/...

Since making its first appearance in the 1960s, the computer corpus has infiltrated all fields of language-related research, from lexicography to literary criticism through artificial intelligence and language teaching. This widespread use of the computer corpus has led to the development of a new discipline which has come to be called 'corpus linguistics', a term which refers not just to a new...