37,952,403 papers · showing 2,441–2,460 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 5660 ms

We investigated mental rotation and rotational uncertainty effect of Chinese characters and English letters, respectively by event-related potential (ERP) and behavior responses. The results indicated that subjects could mentally rotate Chinese characters and…

Bilingual individuals have been shown to access their native language while reading in or listening to their other language. However, it is unknown what type of mental representation (e.g., sound or spelling) they retrieve. Here, using event-related brain pote…

This study examines how household and parental-level determinants affect English proficiency among the children of African immigrants in the US. Within immigrant families, the study finds that children's level of proficiency has a stronger positive association…

Due to language barrier, non-English users are unable to retrieve the most updated medical information from the U.S. authoritative medical websites, such as PubMed and MedlinePlus. A few cross-language medical information retrieval (CLMIR) systems have been ut…

The assessment of multiliterate handwriting performance is rarely reported despite increased globalization. The present study describes the psychometric properties of a handwriting speed test developed for children who are biliterate in English and Chinese. Th…

The Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ) was developed in the US and has been shown to be a valid and reliable measure of how urinary incontinence (UI) affects a woman's quality of life. This study aimed to test the performance of the IIQ in Canada with Eng…

Dutch-learning and English-learning 9-month-olds were tested, using the Headturn Preference Procedure, for their ability to segment Dutch words with strong/weak stress patterns from fluent Dutch speech. This prosodic pattern is highly typical for words of both…

This study investigated the effects of linguistic experience on tone perception. Both Cantonese (in Experiment 1) and Mandarin (in Experiment 2) tones, including both lexical and nonlexical tones, were presented to three groups of subjects: Cantonese, Mandarin…

The processing interactions between segmental and suprasegmental information in native speakers of English and Mandarin Chinese were investigated in a speeded classification task. Since in Chinese, unlike in English, tones convey lexically meaningful informati…

15 normal-hearing, right-handed Italian subjects were tested dichotically with Italian and English stop consonant plus vowel combinations (CVs). The stimuli were modified on a computer-based routine so that the pre-voicing of Italian voiced CVs was 30 ms long.…

INTRODUCTION: As the academic landscape of the 21st century has become increasingly competitive, emotion-related processes have attracted growing attention as potential influences on learners' engagement in foreign language study. Accordingly, the current stud…

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational settings has sparked debates about the potential replacement of human teachers. While AI tools can provide personalized instruction and immediate feedback, the emotional support dimension of teachi…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this investigation was to compare the efficiency of dialogic reading strategies (DRS) provided bilingually (Spanish and English) and solely in English on the acquisition of vocabulary by young school-aged dual-language learners (DLLs) w…

Pakistan, one of the eight countries comprising South Asia, has more than 212.2 million people, making it the world's fifth most populous country after China, India, USA, and Indonesia. It has also the world's second-largest Muslim population. Eberhard et al.…

BACKGROUND: Disruption of spoken language in people with aphasia tends to interfere with the ability to write, which is referred to as dysgraphia. This study examined the effectiveness of the anagram and copy treatment (ACT), administered in English on a bilin…

Though bilinguals know many more words than monolinguals, within each language bilinguals exhibit some processing disadvantages, extending to sublexical processes specifying the sound structure of words (Gollan & Goldrick, Cognition, 125(3), 491-497, 2012). Th…

To better characterize the relation of acculturation, based on language use, to smoking status among Mexican-Americans, a large study sample from an ongoing cohort of Mexican-American households in Texas was stratified into current smokers and non-smokers. Fou…

Languages function as independent and distinct conventional systems, and so each language uses different words to label the same objects. This study investigated whether 2-year-old children recognize that speakers of their native language and speakers of a for…

OBJECTIVE: We examined ethnic and language disparities in diabetes care and management among California residents with type 2 diabetes based on ethnicity and English-language proficiency. METHODS: Data were drawn from the 2007 California Health Interview Surv…

Qualitative descriptions of the consonant inventories of 12 children who have used cochlear implants for at least 5 years are provided, together with description of sound correspondences between children's systems and the ambient language (English). Production…