The purpose of this study was to further analyze the effects of education across different age ranges on neuropsychological test performance. Two different analyses were performed. The first analysis was conducted in order to pinpoint the impact of school attendance on neuropsychological testing. A group of 64 illiterate normal subjects was selected in the Mexican Republic. Their performance wa...

This article discusses the practical issues of compiling controlled multilingual thesauri for purposes industry-specific translation (IST). In multilingual, transnational and globally connected Kazakhstan, IST is a much-needed service. an interdisciplinary field between terminology, computational linguistics, theory practice. Most professional guides, dictionaries glossaries are systemized in a...

Despite the extensive research carried out on definition, classification and translation procedures of culture-specific words (CSWs) in text translation, little attention has been given to these creation equivalence bilingual dictionary. This paper examines nature adequacy major CSWs as well their application two Arabic-English dictionaries: Wehr’s Dictionary Modern Written Arabic Munir Baalbak...

We describe in this article an annotation scheme for deep dependency syntax, built from the surface annotation scheme of the Sequoia corpus, abstracting away from it and expressing the grammatical relations between content words. When these grammatical relations take part into verbal diatheses, we consider the diatheses as resulting from redistributions from the canonical diathesis, which we re...

Learning a specific skill during childhood may partly determine the functional organization of the adult brain. This hypothesis led us to study oral language processing in illiterate subjects who, for social reasons, had never entered school and had no knowledge of reading or writing. In a brain activation study using PET and statistical parametric mapping, we compared word and pseudoword repet...

Learning to read and write generates new rules within the language processing systems. These new rules significantly change the manner in which some operations are performed. This finding was studied, by comparing the performance of literate and illiterate persons in several tasks. It was found that illiterate individuals (1) had difficulties in repeating pseudowords, (2) were worse at memorizi...

ABOUT GOOD TASTE (POLISH: GUST) AND DELICIOUS SMAK): IN OTHER WORDS: WHY THE POLISH WORD GUST LOST ITS ETYMOLOGICAL MEANING The word gust was borrowed from Western European Languages in 17th century a few meanings, including perception of taste and flavour food appetite. author this article discusses the very etymological meaning also words derived it: adjective gustowny adverb gustownie. prese...