The order of ‘noun and adposition’ is the important parameter of word ordering rules in the world’s languages. The seven parameters, ‘adverb and verb’ and others, have a strong dependence on the ‘noun and adposition’. Japanese as well as Korean, Tamil and several other languages seem to have a stable structure of word ordering rules, as well as Thai and other languages which have the opposite w...

In this study we used the boundary paradigm to examine whether readers extract more parafoveal information within than across words. More specifically, we examined whether readers extract more parafoveal information from a compound word's second constituent than from the same word when it is the noun in an adjective-noun phrase (kummitustarina "ghost story" vs. lennokas tarina "vivid story"). W...

Abstract Slurs are pejorative terms for groups of people, relating to example their nationality, sexual orientation, etc. While there is a lot discussion about slurs, they typically characterized in relation neutral noun. In this article we will explore distinction between and offensive group labels. By means small experiment, show that slurs indeed considered be more hurtful than corresponding...

Most research to date on implicit gender stereotyping has been conducted with one age group - young adults. The mechanisms that underlie the on-line processing of stereotypical information in other age groups have received very little attention. This is the first study to investigate real time processing of gender stereotypes at different age levels. We investigated the activation of gender ste...

studies on child language acquisition show that in the lexical development process, generic concept has a significant function, as it has a determining role in the formation of skills such as extension and categorization of concepts. the present research aims to investigate the production and comprehension abilities of generic nouns, as well as the developmental patterns in two age groups (4-5 ...