Can the word superiority effect be modulated by serial position and prosodic structure?

In this study, we examined the word superiority effect in Arabic and English, two languages with significantly different morphological and writing systems. Thirty-two Arabic-English bilingual speakers performed a post-cued letter-in-string identification task in words, pseudo-words, and non-words. The results established the presence of the word superiority effect in Arabic and a robust effect of context in both languages.

Salience-weighted agreement feature hierarchy modulates language comprehension.

The brain establishes relations between elements of an unfolding sentence in order to incrementally build a representation of who is doing what based on various linguistic cues. Many languages systematically mark the verb and/or its arguments to imply the manner in which they are related. A common mechanism to this end is subject-verb agreement, whereby the marking on the verb covaries with one or more of the features such as person, number and gender of the subject argument in a sentence.

Attraction Effects for Verbal Gender and Number Are Similar but Not Identical: Self-Paced Reading Evidence From Modern Standard Arabic.

Previous work on the comprehension of agreement has shown that incorrectly inflected verbs do not trigger responses typically seen with fully ungrammatical verbs when the preceding sentential context furnishes a possibly matching distractor noun (i.e., agreement attraction).

Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: self-paced reading evidence from Arabic.

In the processing of subject-verb agreement, non-subject plural nouns following a singular subject sometimes "attract" the agreement with the verb, despite not being grammatically licensed to do so. This phenomenon generates agreement errors in production and an increased tendency to fail to notice such errors in comprehension, thereby providing a window into the representation of grammatical number in working memory during sentence processing. Research in this topic, however, is primarily done in related languages with similar agreement systems.

[Uterine leiomyosarcoma: report of seven cases and review of the literature].

We report 7 cases of leiomyosarcoma of the uterus observed in the obstetrical and gynaecological department of Sfax (Tunisia). It's a rare tumour with difficult diagnosis and poor prognosis. It requires mainly a surgical treatment and radiotherapy.

[Maternal mortality trends in the Sfax region from 1979 to 2000].

We report a retrospective study about maternal mortality in Sfax (Tunisia) between 1979 and 2000. Maternal mortality rate has fallen strikingly from 76.8 per 100,000 mortality cases in 1979 to 40.

Morphological units in the Arabic mental lexicon: evidence from an individual with deep dyslexia.

An ongoing debate in Arabic morphology concerns the nature of the smallest unit governing lexical organization and representation in this language. A standard model maintains that Arabic words are typically analyzable into a three-consonantal root morpheme carrying the core meaning of words and a prosodic template responsible mostly for grammatical information. This view has been largely supported by research in both theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics.