Foreign Language Learning from the Perspective of Individual Well-being -- “Biasing for the Best”: Looking at New Elements in a Model of Language Learner Well-Being -- Polish Adolescents’ Perceptions of English and their Desire to Learn it -- Investigating Language Learning Motivation from an Ideal Language-self Perspective: Results of a Questionnaire Study -- Reading for Remembering: On …
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical and empirical background -- Chapter 3. Long-term representation of the entire alternative set -- Chapter 4. The mechanisms of activation and competitive inhibition -- Chapter 5. What's included in the set of alternatives? -- Chapter 6. Contrastive pitch accents and focus particles -- Chapter 7. Conclusions.This book presents a novel experimental…
- Chapter 1: Cognitive, social and psychological issues of public discourse and threat communication -- Chapter 2: Proximization: A threat-based model of policy legitimization -- Chapter 3: Health discourse: The war on cancer and beyond -- Chapter 4: Environmental discourse: Climate change -- Chapter 5: Technological discourse: Threats in the cyber-space -- Chapter 6: Immigration and anti-migr…
Articles -- Word-based declensions in Estonian -- Do affixes have meaning? Polarity in the Toten dialect of Norwegian meets morphological theory -- On the interaction of phonology and morphology in language acquisition and German and Dutch Broca’s Aphasia: the case of inflected verbs -- On the typology of state/change of state alternations -- Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation -- Pulaar verba…
Speech research overview -- Speech production and synthesis -- The voice source -- Speech analysis and features -- Speech perception -- Prosody.The overall aim of the book is to provide an integrated view of the separate stages of the speech chain, covering the production process, speech data analysis and speech perception. Analysis of information bearing elements of the speech signal have foun…
Language and Discourse -- Catégorisation, Grammatication et Lexicalisation -- Parsing Forms with Identical Consonants: Hebrew Reduplication -- Linear First-Time Derivation of Verbs and Consonant Cluster Preservation in Israeli Hebrew -- Modern Hebrew Consonant Clusters -- Transcribing Spoken Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary Notes -- From Vanity to Grace -- Language Rights in the Multilingual Societ…
Introducing Perspectives on Aspect -- Aspectual Composition: Surveying the Ingredients -- Quantized Direct Objects Don’t Delimit After All -- Quantification and Aspect -- Prepositions and Results in Italian and English: An Analysis from Event Decomposition -- Atelicity, Pluractionality, and Adverbial Quantification -- On Accumulating and Having IT All -- Adverbs of Completion in an Event Sema…
Issues and Interfaces in the Study of Aspect -- Aspect and the Internal Structure of the Clause -- Topic or Aspect -- Some Notes on the Syntax of Quantity -- Articulated vPS and the Computation of Aspectual Classes -- Flavors of v -- Semi-Copulas -- PP, FP and the Telic/Atelic Distinction in Norwegian Motion Constructions -- Aspect, Tense and Discourse -- The Spatio-Temporal Path and Aspectual …
Introduction -- Part I The Cognitive and Biological Basis of Fluency Related Processes -- The Neurobiological Basis of Reading Fluency by Tami Katzir, Joanna A. Christodoulou and Bernard Chang -- Neuroimaging Perspectives on Skilled and Impaired Reading and the Bilingual Experience by Kaja K. Jasinska, Stephen Frost, Peter Molfese, Nicole Landi, W. Einar Mencl, Jay Rueckl and Ken Pugh -- The …
The objective of the monograph is to provide novel insights into cognitive mechanisms underlying processing of sound and music in different environments. A solid understanding of these mechanisms is vital for numerous technological applications such as for example information retrieval from distributed musical databases or building expert systems. In order to investigate the cognitive mechanism…