The term "phraseology" is derived from the Greek words phrasis-speech and logos-teaching. Phraseological units cover a lot of drawbacks English language it one-third part colloquial speech. aim study to consider phraseological as means communication explore their theoretical practical meanings in formation students' oral-speech skills. was carried Gagauzia Moldova, at secondary school Yessentuk...

Background and Objective: Modern neuroimaging has demonstrated that cognitive functions are based in networks of interconnected modules. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the connectivity of Brodmann's area (BA) 22 in lexico-semantic tasks. Methods: A connectivity fMRI co-activation study was performed by pooling data of lexico-semantic tasks in which BA22 (core of Wernicke's area) was r...

Research into the computational properties of the human metaphor faculty can be categorized according to two different perspectives: the lexico-semantic approach, most favoured by linguists, which sees metaphor as a predominantly linguistic phenomenon and thus attempts to model it as such; and the conceptual approach, which sees metaphor as a deep-seated cognitive agency that systematically org...

The question of whether grammaticality is a binary categorical or a gradient property has been the subject of ongoing debate in linguistics and psychology for many years. Linguists have tended to use constructed examples to test speakers’ judgements on specific sorts of constraint violation. We applied machine translation to randomly selected subsets of the British National Corpus (BNC) to gene...

Age of acquisition (AoA) effects have been used to support the notion of a critical period for first language acquisition. In this study, we examine AoA effects in deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users via a grammaticality judgment task. When English reading performance and nonverbal IQ are factored out, results show that accuracy of grammaticality judgement decreases as AoA increases, until a...

Chinese character structure has often been described as representing a kind of grammar, but the notion of character grammar has hardly been explored. Patterns in character element reduplication are particularly grammar-like, displaying discrete combinatoriality, binarity, phonology-like final prominence, and potentially the need for symbolic rules (X→XX). To test knowledge of these patterns, Ch...

3 experiments were designed to demonstrate that classifying new letter strings as grammatical (i.e., conforming to a set of rules called a synthetic grammar) or ungrammatical may proceed from fragmentary conscious knowledge of the bigrams constituting the grammatical strings displayed in the study phase, rather than from an unconscious structured representation of the grammar, as Reber (1989) c...