Multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

Abstract Ever since the discovery of Indus valley civilization, scholars have debated linguistic identities its people. This study analyzes numerous archaeological, linguistic, archaeogenetic and historical evidences to claim that words used for elephant (like, ‘pīri’, ‘pīru’) in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, elephant-word Hurrian part an Amarna letter ca. 1400 BC, ivory-word (‘pîruš’) recorded certa...

the present study was an attempt to compare the effect of three vlss, namely word-part strategy, word-card strategy and context-clue strategy on immediate and delayed english vocabulary retention of iranian third grade high school students. to this end, 90 students, studying at three high schools in tabriz, in three intact groups, were considered as the participants of the study. in order to en...

Recent research reported the surprising finding that even 6-mo-olds understand common nouns [Bergelson E, Swingley D (2012) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109:3253-3258]. However, is their early lexicon structured and acquired like older learners? We test 6-mo-olds for a hallmark of the mature lexicon: cross-word relations. We also examine whether properties of the home environment that have been linke...