The current study investigated comprehension of object labels in young children. Eightand 14-month olds were presented with pairs of pictures (e.g., dog and ball) to establish infants’ initial looking preferences and then children heard a linguistic label (e.g., dog). Only 14-month-olds reliably increased looking to the referents after hearing the labels relative to their initial preference, wh...

The  present study aims at exploring the processing difficulty of cleft structures as a type of relative clause for EFL and Persian as  first language learners.The impact of head nouns with various functions as well as that of embedding on the processing of Persian and English cleft structures has been investigated in the present study.The participants  were 68  Iranian male and female students...

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...

The paper describes an ongoing experiment consisting in the attempt to quantify word-order properties of three Indo-European languages (Czech, English and German). The statistics are collected from the syntactically annotated treebanks available for all three languages. The treebanks are searched by means of a universal query tool PML-TQ. The search concentrates on the mutual order of a verb an...

This paper addresses two remaining challenges in Chinese word segmentation. The challenge in HLT is to find a robust segmentation method that requires no prior lexical knowledge and no extensive training to adapt to new types of data. The challenge in modelling human cognition and acquisition it to segment words efficiently without using knowledge of wordhood. We propose a radical method of wor...

The present study examines whether reading fluency benefits more from repeated reading of a limited set of words or from practicing reading with many different words. A group of 37 reading delayed Dutch children repeatedly read the same 20 words with limited exposure duration, whereas another group of 37 poor readers received the same reading exercises with 400 different words. Results demonstr...

There is no evidence for the eyes that do not want to see but for the determined and eager heart willing to learn and understand Having always worked in the veterinary field, I had never seriously considered the potential role that antimicrobial-resistant bacteria released to the environment by livestock could play in plant health status. In fact, I had no notion whether the use of antibiotics ...

Language is an intrinsically open-ended system. This fact has led to the widely shared assumption that readers and listeners do not predict upcoming words, at least not in a way that goes beyond simple priming between words. Recent evidence, however, suggests that readers and listeners do anticipate upcoming words “on the fly” as a text unfolds. In 2 event-related potentials experiments, this s...