conclusions the number of linguistic studies on language and speech therapy is more than that of the studies in which clinical data are used to study the theories and hypotheses. therefore, it is necessary to consider this area seriously and guide the studies toward the theories proposed in the related disorders. thus, attention must be paid to pragmatic and semantic domains of the disorder whi...

Although the role of working memory in sentence comprehension has received substantial attention, the nature of this relationship remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction between general, nonverbal working memory (WM) and sentence parsing (SP) in normal English-speaking adults. Accuracy and reaction times were recorded for thirty-one young adults during three on...

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Listener bias is a well-documented phenomenon in linguistics and sociolinguistics research. Listeners have demonstrated bias in assigning personality traits such as intelligence, selfconfidence and likeability to speakers from different language backgrounds (Delamere, 1996). A study by Derwing and Munro (1997), demonstrated that intelligibility scores assigned to nonnative speech were better wh...

A Corpus-based Analysis of Noun Phrase Complexity in Research Article Part-genres Applied Linguistics and Clinical Medicine