We present the design, implementation and simulation results of a psycholinguistic model of human syntactic processing that meets major empirical criteria. The parser operates in conjunction with a lexicalist grammar and is driven by syntactic information associated with heads of phrases. The dynamics of the model are based on competition by lateral inhibition (`competitive inhibition'). Input ...

The current study, setting a two-fold goal, attempted to see whether the preemptive focus on form (FonF) under either planned or unplanned conditions could contribute to increasing lexical diversity in written narratives and, second, to find whether there was a trade-off between the lexical diversity and accuracy. To this end, 32 beginner learners were selected following a Quick Oxford Placemen...

Grammar development over the last decades has seen a shift away from large inventories of grammar rules to richer lexical structures. Many modern grammar theories are highly lexicalised. But simply listing lexical entries typically results in an undesirable amount of redundancy. Lexical inheritance hierarchies, on the other hand, make it possible to capture linguistic generalisations and thereb...

this paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. the aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in english and published in england and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in persian from iranian publications. for this purpose, the frequency of occu...

This systematic review surveyed research on the associations between sleep and memory processes involved in word learning infancy. We found only 16 studies that addressed this topic directly, identifying infant processes, identification of forms running speech, stabilization generalization new form–meaning associations. Some investigated changes brain responses after parameters during postlearn...

We present a methodology for automatically constructing structural hyperlinks for navigation and retrieval in large corpora. A structural hyperlink connects components of a document that have specified structural properties with word-based content similarity. Our approach enables queries that may be posed in terms of keywords, as well as structural segments such as definitions, figures, etc.

Visualization with a hierarchy of mathematical knowledge structure, assist learners in understanding mathematics. We are developing a method which constructs a hierarchy of mathematical knowledge by using hyperlink analysis in our mathematics e-learning site. Hierarchy is calculated by an adjacency matrix. 

The case of Eldred v. Ashcroft focused the public’s attention on the question of the duration of a copyright owner’s right. An even more compelling problem is raised by the scope of the property right associated with copyright. Statutorily, the copyright owner is granted the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, adaptation, public performance, and public display subject to the doctrin...

BACKGROUND Highlighted text in the Internet (i.e., hypertext) is predominantly blue and underlined. The perceptibility of these hypertext characteristics was heavily questioned by applied research and empirical tests resulted in inconclusive results. The ability to recognize blue text in foveal and parafoveal vision was identified as potentially constrained by the low number of foveally centere...