Stroke continues to be a major cause of adult disability. In contrast to progress in stroke prevention and acute medical management, there have been no major breakthroughs in rehabilitation therapies. Most stroke rehabilitation trials are conducted with patients at the chronic stage of recovery and this limits their translation to clinical practice. Encouragingly, several multi-centre rehabilit...

We investigate pre-schoolers’ ability in drawing pragmatic inferences based on prosodic information. Previous work has found that young children are generally oblivious to intonational meaning of utterances. In particular, the ability to comprehend contrastive prosody develops late during language acquisition (after the age of 6). In three experiments, we show that preschoolers can engage in pr...

There is increasing support for embryonic stem (ES) cell research on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, the outcome is more funding from non-federal sources, despite the current administration's opposing views. In Europe, a similar pragmatic turn is in the making, but the future is still uncertain. Acceptance of ES cells is mitigated by the uncritical belief that their use is eth...

This paper reports the results of an empirical study which examined the discrimination and identification of prosodic variations by native and non-native speakers of Japanese. The data support the idea that recognizing prosodic cues is easier than associating the correct interpretations with them. This result is in keeping with first language acquisition studies showing that children acquire ac...

research on l2 learners’ success at development and appropriate use of pragmatic ability and knowledge has mostly approached the issue from a cognitive or social perspective, and less attention has been devoted to the problem from the equally important emotional or individual-psychological lenses. this study sought to explore, first, the interplay between iranian advanced efl learners’ pragmati...

This study examined the interpretation of English anaphora by native Spanish speakers and potential transfer pragmatic lexical requirements into English. It further evaluated whether appropriate contextual information might prime preferred such constructions. Pragmatic rules governing co-indexation in constructions differ substantially operate quite differently two languages. require obligatory...

In this digitalised world, crossing boundaries between life domains is becoming increasingly easy. We are constantly faced with the need to define whether we online or offline, and technology management now an integral part of daily life. Technology management, which affected by individual's networking position, has different components: connectivity self-presentation privacy management. The ob...

In this study, the use of speech-like pragmatic markers in Iranian EFL students’ academic writing was investigated. Speech-like pragmatic markers, such as I think, well, I guess, actually, anyway, anyhow, etc. are linguistic components that are more specific to conversation than writing, and writers may wrongly include them in their academic writing. To examine the students’ use of speech-like ...