Objectives: It has been noted that stuttering is more prevalent in bilinguals than in monolinguals. The similarities of the languages involved have been mentioned to justify the difference between stuttering prevalence among bilingual and monolingual speakers. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of language similarities on prevalence of stuttering among Kurdish-Farsi bilingual st...

Compositional language use shows in creatively associating hitherto unseen meanings and forms in systematic ways. I submit that compositionality, as a key feature of human language, is no reason not to see a continuum between human speech and animal communication. Basic forms of compositional creativity presuppose surprisingly little cognitive sophistication. If changes in agents’ behavioral di...

1. introduction comparative literature is an essentially french science that has formed in the early nineteenth century. this science is a branch of literary criticism that compares and peruses the cultural and literary relations between the nations. this field of literature reviews and analyses the correlation and similarities between different nation’s literature and culture. comparative lite...

the principle of legality is a fundamental principle of criminal law within all statutory legal systems. the principle has been recognized in the iranian legal system which has been influenced by islamic law as well as french law especially since the beginning of the codification era. conversely, in english law which is mainly defined by common law, recently have been taken significant steps to...

This paper aims to narrow the gap between specific and general language theory by initiating contrastive acoustic-phonetic research of Slovenian and English diphthongs. Our ultimate goal is to investigate acoustic-phonetic similarities of the diphthongs across languages in the context of possible portability of resources between the languages. In general, the paper addresses the possibility of ...

Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that they have not completely acquired – heritage language – has only recently been given the attention it deserves from linguists and language instructors. Despite the appearance of great variation among heritage speakers, they fall a...

The authors report 4 experiments exploring the language-switching performance of highly proficient bilinguals in a picture-naming task. In Experiment 1, they tested the impact of language similarity and age of 2nd language acquisition on the language-switching performance of highly proficient bilinguals. Experiments 2, 3, and 4 assessed the performance of highly proficient bilinguals in languag...

The ISO 19103 standard—defining rules and guidelines for conceptual modeling in the geographic domain—has deliberately chosen the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as “conceptual schema language” for geographic information systems. From today’s perspective—i.e. when taking into account today’s mature semantic web technology—another language might also be envisioned as language for specifying appl...