This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features inmoves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international andIranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published inIranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The researcharticle introductions ...

This study examines whether lexical repetition, syntactic skills, and working memory (WM) affect children's syntactic-priming behavior, i.e. their tendency to adopt previously encountered syntactic structures. Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children were primed with prenominal (e.g., the yellow cup) or relative clause (RC; e.g., the cup that is ye...

In this paper we examine prosodic and syntactic structures of spontaneous English speech. By wavelet-based analysis, the prosodic structure of speech can be visually represented as a tree diagram. Combined with automatic syntactic parsing, this enables a novel method to compare prosodic and syntactic hierarchical structures in spoken language. In our research we segmented a sample of spontaneou...