teaist /a superfan of tea, stronger than SOED's: tea-drinker a person who drinks tea, esp. habitually or in large quantities;/chaist /a superfan of tea, closest to (Mandarin) chá/CHA, also with a lovely ring to it in Bulgarian and Russian/superfan /a fanatic not a mere fan/...
Both words and faces are considered special stimuli, with some commonalities in terms of being processed holistically and with similar, potentially overlapping, brain regions involved in the two tasks, with evidence for different lateralizations in symmetric areas of the right (face) and left (word)...
New York, which in 1950 was number one with a population of around 12 million, will only be the sixth largest city in the world but with an extra 2 million.I: And London?E: London, which was number two, won’t even be in the top ten. Its population in 1950, by the way, was ...
It was connected to the mainland with massive causeways and aqueducts. Upon arrival in 1519 The Spanish were astounded at the masterful engineering of roads, canals, and aqueducts done by the Aztecs Hernan Cortes’s second letter to the king shows this in his statement “considering that they ...
The four string variables were factorially crossed with two replications per cell (with the sin- gle exception that since only one seven-letter word ending with the letter bet was found, the second replication in that cell was substi- tuted by a word ending with the letter hey). Strings...
According to the 5-Point Likert Scale used to assess the respondent’s sentiments, the strongest views were denoted using numeric code “1” signifying a “strong agreement” with the statements posed, and numeric code 2 used to represent a “strong disagreement” with the same statements. ...
For example, when a manager engages in some activities that conflict with those of the company, then there is need to put in place stiffer penalties for the offenses and malpractices committed. In certain cases, the management team might reward themselves high amounts of bonuses without ...
Reliability, correlations with other psycholinguistic norms and predictive capacity of iconicity ratings We calculated the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC; Koo & Li,2016) for each iconicity questionnaire to obtain the interrater reliability of the measure. To do this, we used the two-way ...
Finally, we also removed the following from the candidate words of the two different sources: (1) words with r-ending retroflexion (e.g., 托儿 “accomplice”) where the second character儿 functions as a phonological suffix to a word and is usually not written out (Lv,1984; Huang & Liao...