the spreading activation models of mental lexicon's structure have presented the lexicon in multiple layers (semantic- syntactic- phonological). each layer is a network of nodes which are associated by links. the nature of these links is different from layer to layer. the literature for english speakers has shown that in the phonological layer, phonological forms of words have been linked based...

The Quran and Hadiths including Infallibles (AS) Hadiths such as Imam Sadegh (AS) were one of compilation references, and also, one of the fields of research for Arabs morphologists from long time ago. Imam Sadegh’s (AS) Hadiths based on Sunni’s lexicon, and then, based on another Islamic science books will be illustrated in this research in order to identify where these Hadiths hav...

A strong phonological theory of reading is proposed and discussed. The first claim of this article is that current debates on word recognition are often based on different axioms regarding the cognitive structures of the mental lexicon rather than conflicting empirical evidence. These axioms lead to different interpretations of the same data. It is argued that once the implicit axioms of compet...

This paper presents a new perception based model for reading cursive script. We describe the organization of our pseudo-neuronal system and show the role of activation mechanism in perceiving and reading cursive script. We have introduced into our model some characteristics speciic to cursive script. First, we use more appropriate features such as ascenders and descenders. Second, we deal with ...