Aim/Purpose. The most crucial aspects of teaching a foreign language to more advanced learners are building an awareness discourse modes, how regulate discourse, and the pragmatic properties components. However, in different languages, connections structure ensured by linguistic means which makes matters complicated for learner. Background. By uncovering regularities comparing them with pattern...

In their strongest formulation, theories of grounded cognition claim that concepts are made up sensorimotor information. Following such equivalence, perceptual properties objects should consistently influence processing, even in purely linguistic tasks, where information is neither solicited nor required. Previous studies have tested this prediction semantic priming but they not observed influe...

The boundary paradigm, in combination with parafoveal masks, is the main technique for studying parafoveal preprocessing during reading. The rationale is that the masks (e.g., strings of X's) prevent parafoveal preprocessing, but do not interfere with foveal processing. A recent study, however, raised doubts about the neutrality of parafoveal masks. In the present study, we explored this issue ...

The processing of single words that varied in their semantic (concrete/abstract word) and syntactic (content/function word) status was investigated under different task demands (semantic/ syntactic task) in an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment. Task demands to a large degree determined which subparts of the neuronal network supporting word processing were activated....

Two experiments were undertaken in order to evaluate the influence of automatic semantic processing of pictures on word judgments. In both studies, picture-word analogs of the Stroop task were employed. In Experiment 1, subjects were required to make a semantic category judgment about the word; in Experiment 2, they were simply to respond yes or no to whether the word was DOG. Taken together, t...