But this is the rare body wash that gives me a truly special sensorial experience without stripping my skin in the process. Allure, 26 Dec. 2024 At least since Aristotle, many writers have posited a sensorial hierarchy: seeing and hearing are said to be the most salient to our minds and...
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VocabularyReplace the underlined word in the following sentence with one of these words and change the form where necessary. (integral, salient, deviate, scratch the surface, malevolent, pervade, domain, indicative, nourishment, bound)23. Most of the times, past performance is suggestive of future...
We investigated processing of sentences with varying word order and pronoun resolution by means of self-paced reading and an antecedent choice task, respectively. Our results show that linguistic as well as visual salience cues immediately speeded up reading times of sentences mentioning the salient ...
Based on the above evidence, it is reasonable to believe that word representations are salient to Chinese readers during reading, even if their boundaries are visually ambiguous. Yet, it is still not entirely clear how readers segment words while reading (for research on word segmentation on ambig...
The first citation is from a 1587 religious book by Philippe de Mornay (tr. Philip Sidney & Arthur Golding): ‘The skilfull can work much upon little, and by his cunning ouercome the awknesse of his stuffe.’ The citations continue till 1674, with the word also spelledawknesse,awknes...
Trajector—landmark theory illustrates the thought that English inverted sentences are in accordance with the salient principles from the cognitive perspective. 射体—界标理论从认知的角度对倒装句的焦点凸显功能作出解释,认为倒装句是该理论在语言学中的现实化,它把"射体—界标"转化为"界标—射体"结构形成...
A salient feature of the book is an ingenious, comical, cultural glossary supplementing the text as it unfolds. For example:Ultra short term nostalgia(unhyphenated in the book) is ‘homesickness for the extremely recent past:God, things seemed so much better in the world last week.’ This ha...
And in a sense, our law reinforces the idea that religion has been — and could be again — a salient characteristic on the basis of which groups can be subordinated within the American populace. Christopher Shea, Vox, 1 Aug. 2018 In truth, the United States has long used its diplomati...
That the overemphasis on ‘foreign’ perpetrators, while still quite strong, is nonetheless declining, suggests migrant criminality is becoming a less salient topic in mainstream German discourse. Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 The other is an emphasis — actually, overemphasis — on contemp...