abstract objective: this study aimed to present a descriptive analysis of the responses given by two-and-a-half year-old farsi-speaking children to the “persian picture naming test” carried out on a statistically significant sample of subjects. materials and methods: 60 two-and-a-half-year-old children were chosen from 32 kindergartens through multiple cluster sampling method and then evaluated...

This study intends to investigate the realizations and functional patterns of shell nouns in Applied Linguistics research articles.  To this end, fifty research articles in the field of Applied Linguistic were selected from Journal of English for Academic Purposes and journal of English for Specific Purposes published by Elsevier.  The articles were analyzed for the realizatio...

The present study dissociated the immediate neural costs from the subsequent neural consequences of integrating time shifts into our mental representations of events. Event-related potentials were recorded as participants read scenarios that included words referring to short temporal shifts (e.g., after one second), moderate temporal shifts (e.g., after one hour), or long temporal shifts (e.g.,...

By adopting the corpus-based approach, present study compares frequency of use, semantic distribution, and stance expression shell nouns in “N + that” clause popular science discourse compared with academic writing. The results show that, firstly, use is lower than that discourse. Secondly, coverage smaller discourse, but its proportion distribution roughly same, mainly including mental linguis...

In Construction Morphology (CM), a compound is treated as a construction at the word level with a systematic correlation between its form and meaning, in the sense that any change in the form is accompanied by a change in the meaning. Compound words are coined by compounding templates which are called abstract schemas in CM. These abstract constructional schemas generalize over sets of existing...