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Children must possess some ability to process input in a meaningful manner to acquire language. The present study reports on data from an experiment investigating 3- to 5-year-old English-speaking children's understanding of restrictive relative clauses manipulated for embeddedness and focus. The results of the study s…

This article explores deaf college students' knowledge of English wh-question formation in the context of government-binding theory and an associated learnability theory. The parameters of universal grammar (UG) that are relevant to wh-question formation are identified, and predictions are made regarding the learning o…

Measurements of height, weight and triceps skinfold thickness were obtained from English and Scottish schoolchildren from 15 birth cohorts over the period 1972-1980. Positive trends in weight were found for boys and girls in both countries, but in England they were less than expected from the increases in height. The i…

OBJECTIVES: Research indicates that the increasing population of over 25 million people in the United States who have limited English proficiency experience differences in decision-making and subsequent care at end of life in the ICU when compared with the general population. The objective of this study was to assess t…

OBJECTIVE: The intent of the study was to develop and validate a comparable health literacy test for Spanish-speaking and English-speaking populations. STUDY DESIGN: The design of the instrument, named the Short Assessment of Health Literacy-Spanish and English (SAHL-S&E), combined a word recognition test, as appearin…

INTRODUCTION: Speech disfluencies observed across multiple languages may reflect typical patterns of bilingual development rather than clinical stuttering, prompting a growing need to establish diagnostic criteria to improve the accuracy of stuttering assessment in bilingual individuals. While recent studies have begun…

The internet has become a necessary communication platform for health information. The quality of online material for patients varies significantly, and this is not different for material on gastrointestinal cancers. We aimed to assess English and Spanish online patient information addressing esophageal, gastric, and c…

Some proponents of higher education English as a medium of instruction (EMI) have suggested listening to English lectures provides students the opportunity to incidentally acquire unknown words. A case study was designed to examine this assumption. First, the lexical profiles of 27first-year undergraduate course lectur…

Based on the existing optimization neural network algorithm, this paper introduces a simple and computationally efficient adaptive mechanism (adaptive exponential decay rate). By applying the adaptive mechanism to the Adadelta algorithm, it can be seen that AEDR-Adadelta acquires the learning rate dynamically and adapt…

Here, we used event-related potentials to test the predictions of two prominent accounts of code-switching in bilinguals: The Matrix Language Framework (MLF; Myers-Scotton, 1993) and an application of the Minimalist Programme (MP; Cantone and MacSwan, 2009). We focused on the relative order of the noun with respect to…

INTRODUCTION: Medical education is proven to be associated with a high degree of psychological stress. Different coping strategies used by students have been investigated on their efficacy. So far, studies on medical students have been limited to a single population. AIM OF THE STUDY: Our study aimed to identify diffe…

OBJECTIVES: Head injuries, including concussion, are a concern in many sports. Current validated concussion assessment protocols such are problematic with suggestions that an oculomotor examination, such as the King-Devick (K-D) test, could be included. This research explores the role of the K-D test in snowsport concu…

OBJECTIVE: Patient-clinician communication difficulties are a major barrier to effective symptom management during chemotherapy especially among non-English-speaking and minority patients. This study sought to examine how information is exchanged between patients and clinicians during chemotherapy treatment regarding p…

OBJECTIVE: Despite advances in therapies, disparities in outcomes have been documented for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients for both ethnicity and English language proficiency. The goals of these analyses were to compare differences in RA patient-reported outcomes, by both self-identification of ethnicity and English…

BACKGROUND: Children who are learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) may start school with smaller vocabularies than their monolingual peers. Given the links between vocabulary and academic achievement, it is important to evaluate interventions that are designed to support vocabulary learning in this group of…

The authors documented California's tobacco control initiatives for Asian Americans and the current tobacco use status among Asian subgroups and provide a discussion of the challenges ahead. The California Tobacco Control Program has employed a comprehensive approach to decrease tobacco use in Asian Americans, includin…

National factor(s) influencing publication output in the highest ranked medical journals are largely unknown. We sought to examine the relationship between national research funding and English proficiency on publication output. We identified all original research articles appearing in the five highest ranked general m…

INTRODUCTION: Estimating cognitive load in English translation education is important for understanding learners' processing difficulty and supporting adaptive instructional decisions. However, cognitive load is a latent psychological construct and cannot be treated as a directly observed token level label. To address…

We combine formal linguistic approaches, where formal features are at stake, and psycholinguistic approaches to explore the processing mechanisms involved in language coactivation. In particular, we use linguistic codeswitching as a laboratory condition where the two languages of the bilingual are forced to be activate…

Business English communication is a fundamental issue in the success of organizations in the modern globalized business world. Nevertheless, the analysis and selection of the most suitable Business English training strategies involve various qualitative and unclear aspects, which are not always well-managed through tra…