This study is conducted under the domain of Vygotskian Socio-cultural Theory (SCT) of mind and the notion of dynamic assessment to elevate the linguistic accuracy of EFL learners’ writing skill. 40 homogenous intermediate EFL learners from four intact classes were divided into two dynamic assessment (DA) and non-dynamic assessment (NDA) groups. As a pre-test, the participants were given writing...

Ray Jackendoff (2007) claims that most work on consciousness deals " almost exclusively with visual experience " and suggests to focus more on linguistic awareness. Jackendoff proposes that phonological ability – to divide utterances into words and syllables – is at the core of linguistic consciousness. This account can be supplemented by empirical research on language acquisition. Focusing on ...

Patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) often show communicative-pragmatic deficits involving different expressive modalities, i.e. linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic. Most previous research has evaluated pragmatic ability using linguistic tasks only, while the extralinguistic aspects of communication have received less attention. The aim of the present study was to provide a mu...

We will present the analysis of a Spanish prosody database by estimating the parameters of Fujisaki's model for FO contours. These parameters are classified attending to linguistic features and they form the analysis database. When synthesizing FO contours we extract the linguistic features from the text and perform a k-Nearest Neighbour search. Linguistic feature comparison distance is trained...

This research aims at proposing a new method for discovering frequent temporal itemsets in continuous subsets of a dataset with quantitative transactions. It is important to note that although these temporal itemsets may have relatively high textit{support} or occurrence within particular time intervals, they do not necessarily get similar textit{support} across the whole dataset, which makes i...

Objectives: Auditory perception or hearing ability is critical for children in acquisition of language and speech hence hearing loss has different effects on individuals’ linguistic perception, and also on their functions. It seems that deaf people suffer from language and speech impairments such as in perception of complex linguistic constructions. This research was aimed to study the pe...

in this sense. For instance, predication can combine any predicate phrase (e.g. ‘is an F’ or ‘Fs’) with any noun phrase (e.g. ‘a’ or ‘The F’), regardless of what objects and properties those phrases denote; and the representational significance of that combination is just that the object denoted by the noun phrase possesses the property denoted by the predicate. By contrast, many non-linguistic...

In order to provide valid information in the context of presurgical evaluation, a given neuroimaging tool relies on its ability to record and characterize function-specific activity of the brain. Due to its spatiotemporal resolution, unmatched by other noninvasive techniques, MEG can potentially provide new insights to the study of cortical representation of linguistic functions, and therefore,...

The current study examined a new spatial integration (SI) task, based on figural rather than linguistic stimuli, to measure the construct of mental modeling ability. Previous tasks conflated linguistic ability with mental modeling ability by requiring sentence processing, which may have contributed to mixed findings with respect to the relationship between mental model ability and working memor...