purpose: this study aimed to measure the information load of words in farsi scientific texts and determine the relationship between some properties of the words and information load of the texts based on shannon entropy. methodology: the study was conducted based on the content analysis of a number of 320 articles that were published in scientific-research iranian journals in 2009. and the arti...

This paper presents an acoustic and perceptual study of alveolar flaps in American English. In the acoustic study, vowel duration differences in disyllabic tokens replicated previous findings in that vowels preceding /d/ were significantly longer than those preceding /t/. Flap frequency was also analyzed based on a method of distinguishing flapped from unflapped stops on a speaker-by-speaker ba...

This study presents a method that assesses ESL learners’ vocabulary usage to improve an automated scoring system of spontaneous speech responses by non-native English speakers. Focusing on vocabulary sophistication, we estimate the difficulty of each word in the vocabulary based on its frequency in a reference corpus and assess the mean difficulty level of the vocabulary usage across the respon...

the writers of the present article have tried to explain the origin and the meanings of the word a’jam. to achieve this purpose, the authors have consulted different persian and arabic dictionaries as well as different works of prose and poetry. the writers also tried to prove the suggestion that says this word is originally persian and is derived from the name of jamshid (the mythical king of ...