It is widely accepted that semanti(: ttle-ories should, as far as possible, be com-positional. The claim that a dmory is (:omt)ositional, however, lacks bite if lexical and pre-lexical items are allowed to mean dilrerent things ill difl'erent contexts. The aim of the current paper is to show how to deal with a well-known t)henolnenon by relying on (:ombinato-rim effects to infer difforent conse...

Although language rehabilitation in patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is recommended, rehabilitation studies in this clinical syndrome are scarce. Specifically, in relation to semantic dementia (SD), few studies have shown the possibility of lexical relearning. Objective To analyze the effectiveness of rehabilitation for lexical reacquisition in SD. Methods Three SD patients w...

Although language rehabilitation in patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is recommended, rehabilitation studies in this clinical syndrome are scarce. Specifically, in relation to semantic dementia (SD), few studies have shown the possibility of lexical relearning. Objective: To analyze the effectiveness of rehabilitation for lexical reacquisition in SD. Methods: Three SD patients wer...

When bilinguals process written language, they show delays in accessing lexical items relative to monolinguals. The present study investigated whether this effect extended to spoken language comprehension, examining the processing of sentences with either low or high semantic constraint in both first and second languages. English-German bilinguals, German-English bilinguals and English monoling...

When bilinguals process written language, they show delays in accessing lexical items relative to monolinguals. The present study investigated whether this effect extended to spoken language comprehension, examining the processing of sentences with either low or high semantic constraint in both first and second languages. English-German bilinguals, German-English bilinguals and English monoling...

Abstract Iconicity in language is receiving increased attention from many fields, but our understanding of iconicity only as good the measures we use to quantify it. We collected for 304 Japanese words English-speaking participants, using rating and guessing tasks. The included ideophones (structurally marked depictive words) along with regular lexical items similar semantic domains (e.g., fuwa...

The approach to multilingual lexical representation developed as part of the ACQUILEX Lexical Knowledge Base (LKB) discussed with specific reference to complex translation equivalence. The treatment described provides a lexicalist account of translation mismatches in terms of translation links which capture cross-linguistic generalizations across sets of semantically related lexical items, and ...

background: as english has increasingly become the lingua franca in science and international journals require native- like academic writing standards from nonnative researchers, there is more pressure on nonnative scholars to write their research articles more accurately and appropriately in english.this study was conducted to determine the most-occurring language-related errors which iranian ...