We analyze the frequency–rank relationship in sub-vocabularies corresponding to three different grammatical classes (nouns, verbs, and others) a collection of literary works English, whose words have been automatically tagged according their role. Comparing with null hypothesis which assumes that belonging each class are uniformly distributed across frequency–ranked vocabulary whole work, we di...

one of the basic questions in the domain of lexical access and the process of word recognition in mental lexicon is how the native speaker can access the meaning of new complex words in his/her language and what factors affect  its speed? the aim of this study was to investigate empirically effective factors on the speed of lexical access to the derived words in persian mental lexicon. if we kn...

this study focuses on one particular sound change common in conversational speech, in which coronal nasal consonants undergo place assimilation toward the following syllable- or word-initial labial consonants. f2 and f3 formant frequency measurements were taken from, and compared between words involving the sequences /vnb/ and /vmb/ across syllable boundary as well as word boundary in assimilat...

Assessment is considered as one of the fundamental elements in the field of foreign language acquisition. In order for communication take place, adequate number of vocabulary is needed to be known by the learners. The salient role of vocabulary in the field of foreign language acquisition resulted in the publication of several hundreds of papers and dozens of books. Due to the dominant role of ...