the development of technology and modern industrial foundations has faced new matters to contemporary human societies. technology is rapidly changing lifestyles, social interactions and even modern human worldview about him (her)self and existence. technology-the unavoidable reality of modern world- represented itself as a phenomenon of expanding. the modern techniques have become quite differe...

As a result of the economic, political and cultural influence of Britain and the US, and the emergence of English as an international language, many world languages have absorbed loanwords from English, especially during the twentieth century. Japanese contains thousands of such borrowings, many of which are well-established and in universal use. A domestic phonetic script is available to both ...

The transfer of sound from one language into another is not a uniform process, but rather, takes different forms depending on the orthographies and phonological properties of source and target languages, the less common of which involve processes significantly different from transliteration between European phonetic scripts. This paper pools techniques commonly used in loanword phonology and se...

This study examines the effects of working memory capacity and content familiarity on literal and inferential comprehension in second language (L2) reading. Participants were 62 Turkish university students with an advanced English proficiency level. Working memory capacity was measured through a computerized version of a reading span test, whereas content familiarity was achieved through nativi...

This paper discusses several relevant issues concerning the pronunciation of proper names. Although it was motivated by the experience of the ONOMASTICA European project, it re ects a personal view, not constituting, therefore, an o cial document of the project. The major outcome of the project was the production of two important linguistic resources: the set of 11 national pronunciation lexica...

This paper discusses several relevant issues concerning the pronunciation of proper names. Although it was motivated by the experience of the ONOMASTICA European project, it reeects a personal view, not constituting, therefore, an oocial document of the project. The major outcome of the project was the production of two important linguistic resources: the set of 11 national pronunciation lexica...

today, information technology services are considered as valuable resources in all areas. for making information technology management processes purposeful and efficient in different organizations – as a competitive and strategic advantage (especially in organizations responsible for health care services) – it is necessary to recognize the level of maturity of the organization and review its pr...