Cross-cultural studies of color naming show that basic terms are universally the most frequently used to name colors. However, such basic color terms are always used in the context of larger linguistic systems when speciŽ c properties of color experience are described. To investigate naturalistic naming behaviors, we examined the use of modiŽ ers in English and Vietnamese color naming using an ...

The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporary Islam. Its authors present complex phenomena ideological, historical, cultural political contexts processes, investigate distribution radical propagandist materials among various Muslim communities around world analyse consequences ideological transformation Islamic fundamentalism selected Europea...

Naming and discovery are two critical issues of a widearea network computing system. The rising popularity of wide-area systems have resulted in the development of a variety of naming and discovery systems that are centered on a “descriptive” paradigm, where resources and services are described by a set of attribute-value tuples. This paper presents new evidence to suggest that descriptive nami...

This paper investigates the relationship between change in picture naming with anomia therapy and changes in word retrieval in conversations between adults with aphasia and a regular conversational partner. We present data from two therapy projects (Hickin et al. [ 1 ] and Best et al. [ 2 ]). In each study, therapy involved cueing with the aim of improving retrieval of a set of nouns. Naming of...

Epilepsy surgery in the left temporal lobe is associated with a high risk of naming decline. In the present study, in 45 patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and confirmed left hemisphere language dominance, 13 (29%) patients demonstrated postoperative decrement >or=5 naming failures in the Boston Naming Test (BNT). Multivariate discriminant analysis with age at onset of epilepsy, ag...

Objectives: The lexical-level deficits are one of the hallmark limitations observed in early school-age children with specific language impairment. These problems are the predictors of reading problems and poor performance at school. Most studies in Persian-speaker children with specific language impairment have focused on syntax and morphology and the naming errors profile of these children ar...