This study examined whether the phonological information of visually presented words had an effect on the pre-lexical stage by investigating event-related potentials (ERPs) during lexical decision To do so, 21 participants performed a gono-go lexical decision task consisting of heterographic homophones (eg, ġ), homographic homophones (eg, ) and control word..
The purpose of this paper is to show how the secrets of the brain hidden in language expressions of Shakespeare`s comedies are revealed through brain image experiments such as fMRI First, I discuss how human memory works in the brain through Shakespeare`s comedies The Tempest and Love`s Lost Second, I explore how the old men`s childish behavior and oblivion relevant to th..
This paper addresses any-type NPIs in English Biclausal Sentences The study reveals how the factors of position and proficiency level influence second language acquisition For this study, an experiment was conducted with three EFL groups of different proficiencies who were born in Korea The most important finding in the experiment is that the EII (intermediate group) p..
This study reports the uses of English idiomatic expressions observed in translated manga or comics Assuming that the conversations in manga are samples of average daily conversation, the current findings may provide implications regarding natural informal English conversations Idiomatic expressions were collected from four different manga titles (21 volumes) and they ..
The structure of a split CP and the internal Merge of V2 seems to be similar between OE and PDE in the matrix clauses By contrast, the structure of CP in PDE is much more flexible than that of OE in the embedded clauses During the OE and early ME periods, the heavy use of subjunctive that-clauses and no introduction of forto-infinitives kept finite embedded clauses from e..
This paper aims to compare Korean reflexive pronouns caki and the Chinese reflexive expressions ziji, clarify the differences, and suggest a teaching method For this purpose, the meanings and the grammatical features in many contexts such as questions were examined and analyzed It is shown that though the Korean reflexive pronouns caki and the Chinese reflexive expression..
This paper examined how well Korean EFL university students recognize the multiple senses of high-frequency polysemous English prepositions With 10 target prepositions after, against, behind, for, in, into, off, on, over, and through -40 undergraduates took a choice test asking them to fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions The results of the test revealed that..
Through body part terms, the views of cognitive linguistics about the relationship between the form and the meaning of sign language were discussed in this paper At first, there is no any difference in the common principle of structuralization between sign language and spoken language Secondly, according to the principle of structuralization for sign language and spoken la..