Human-written, good quality extractive summaries pay great attention to the text intermixing the extracts. In this work, we focused on the lexical choice for verbs introducing quoted text. We analyzed 4000+ high quality summaries for a high traffic mailing list and manually assembled 39 quotation-introducing verb classes that cover the majority of the verb occurrences. A significant amount of t...

Embodied Cognition by Lawrence Shapiro is a fine text that focuses on the issues of body, embodiment, and the environment in cognitive science, philosophy, and psychology. As the title suggests, Shapiro's book offers us a glimpse into the broadly defined, and still growing, research paradigm known as "embodied" cognition. Within this particular paradigm the body and environment are placed in th...

This paper is a quantitative study of the word order patterns in the Old Spanish text EI Libro del Caballero Zifar. In the past, many have argued against or in favor of categorizing O'Sp as a V2 language, but to my knowledge none have based such a claim on the findings of a statistical analysis of asp texts. In the essay, I compare 1000 clauses from this asp work of prose with 185 clauses from ...

Three groups of children, aged 5, 7 and 11 years, were tested in a clausememory task, in order to investigate the role of syntactic and semantic factors in children's recall and processing of spoken continuous prose. The children listened to a story, which was interrupted at intervals during which they were asked to repeat verbatim the last sentence they heard. The testsentences always consiste...

Embodied Cognition by Lawrence Shapiro is a fine text that focuses on the issues of body, embodiment, and the environment in cognitive science, philosophy, and psychology. As the title suggests, Shapiro's book offers us a glimpse into the broadly defined, and still growing, research paradigm known as "embodied" cognition. Within this particular paradigm the body and environment are placed in th...

the reader as one of the three angles of literary criticism triangle besides its two other angles i.e. the writer and literary work is considered as one of the effective factors in studying a  literary work in critical circles. some critics call him consumer on the one hand and producer on the other hand because of his interpretations and perceptions. accordingly, literary works are divided int...

The hypertext edition, the hypermedia edition, the multimedia edition, the computer edition, the digital edition, the electronic edition are all synonymous labels for a concept without a definition. The use of “edition” in these labels presuppose a conventional understanding of that word, and is based on the implicit assumption that there is a general agreement on what an edition is. But there ...