Language comprehension is incremental, involving the integration of information from different words together with the need to resolve conflicting cues when unexpected information occurs. The present fMRI design seeks to segregate the neuro-anatomical substrates of these two processes by comparing well-formed and ill-formed sentences during subject-verb agreement computation. Our experiment tak...

â â€œshodan” is a multifunctional verb in persian language. this paper deals with six different functions of “shodan” based on a purely formal approach. these functions are as follows: liking verb, light verb in some compound predicates, auxiliary verb, helping verb in passive voice, modal verb, and simple verb. the interface between lexicon and syntax, and the ways to show this relations...

In recent years, the internet has become a popular medium for pregnant women seeking pregnancy-related information (Gao et al., 2012; Lagan, Sinclair & Kernohan, 2010; Romano, 2007; Song, West, Lundy & Smith-Dahmen, 2012). This study which utilized a qualitative approach explores Israeli women’s online information seeking during pregnancy. Israel is an especially interesting and important case ...

This study attempted to investigate writing problems and the relationship between expert-assessment and self-assessment of writing problems. Participants were thirty four non-English faculty members of Tehran and Guilan universities. The instruments were writing an essay on the topic "What teaching strategies do you use in your classes?" in twenty five lines and filling the questionnaire of wri...

A grammar checker is a tool to check each sentence in text see whether it conforms the grammar. In case finds structure that conflicts with conformity grammar, would give suggestions for alternatives. The checkers European languages and some Indic are well developed. However, perhaps, owing Tamil being morphologically rich agglutinative language this has been challenging task. An approach detec...