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Prior research on the phonetics of code-switching has shown that bilinguals often experience short-term cross-linguistic interference, where the productions of one language shift towards the opposite language. Yet, these studies, most frequently employing a read-aloud paradigm, have focused primarily on language pairin…

Listeners adapt efficiently to new talkers by using lexical knowledge to resolve perceptual uncertainty. This adaptation has been widely observed, both in first (L1) and in second languages (L2). Here, adaptation was tested in both the L1 and L2 of speakers of Mandarin and English, two very dissimilar languages. A soun…

This study set out to examine existence of a shared-dialect effect, a phenomenon that when a rater shares the same dialect with a candidate, the rater is more likely to give the candidate a higher score in English speaking tests. Ten Cantonese-speaking raters and ten Mandarin-speaking raters were selected to assess for…

The paper measures the impact of the developed approach to teaching the translation theory, using the psycholinguistic features of the English language. The factor analysis validation framework was used to control the data of this study. 190 s-year students from Xxx University majoring in translation studies were…

It is well-established that English for academic purposes (EAP) programmes are critical for academic success in English-medium universities. Nonetheless, there is significantly less research on how EAP programmes impact multilingual domestic university students, compared to that of international students who speak Engl…

Language learning is one of the most important aspects of an individual's life development and growth. Normal learners' English language acquisition differs depending on their preferences and learning styles. Children with autism, on the other hand, appear to have different learning methods and routines. There has been…

United States regulations for the protection of human research subjects prescribe parameters for documentation of valid informed consent, which include the stipulation that the process be in a "language understandable to the subject." While significant energy has been devoted to improving the readability of consent doc…

Administrators and policymakers in the Netherlands have concluded, after considerable deliberation, that the existing Dutch diagnosis-related group (drg)-based system of diagnosis treatment combinations for funding mental health care should be replaced by the so-called English model. The details, however, need to be an…

This study examined whether students studying literature in complementary learning clusters would show more improvement in medical humanities literacy, critical thinking skills, and English proficiency compared to those in conventional learning clusters. Ninety-three students participated in the study (M age =&#…

OBJECTIVE: To explore the different brain areas activated by Chinese, English, and Nepali word tasks in Nepalese by using the functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI). METHODS: To determine the neuroanatomic functional brain areas responsible for Chinese, English and Nepali reading as well as sentence-formation, blo…

With the growing demand for cross-lingual real-time communication in smart tourism scenarios, the trade-off between response speed and translation quality in voice translation systems has become increasingly sensitive. Centering on this issue, this study proposes a Multimodal Fusion Transformer Transducer (MF-TT) model…

Children tend to favor in-group members over out-group members, but how do these preferences develop across childhood, and what role does intergroup contact (exposure and/or contact with out-group members) play? Here, we focus on the developmental trajectory of accent-based preferences, and whether exposure to other la…

This study investigates whether syntactic unification, the process whereby lexical items are combined into a structured sentence representation, operates independently of semantic influence in Cantonese. Specifically, we compared Cantonese with English to examine whether the autonomy of syntactic unification from seman…

BACKGROUND: Management of dementia involves a multidisciplinary approach which also requires active participation from family members and caregivers. Thus, having easy access to information about dementia care is pertinent. Internet-based information is an emerging method for the same. AIM: To perform a comparative as…

Learning attitude is thought to impact students' academic achievement and success, but the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms of learning attitudes remain unclear. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the neural markers linked to attitudes toward foreign languages and how they contribute to foreign-lan…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between language use - predominantly English, English and Spanish equally and predominantly Spanish - and food insecurity among Hispanic adults residing in the USA, 1999-2018. DESIGN: Pooled cross-sectional study design. SETTING: United States. PARTICIPANTS: 15 073 Hispanic adul…

Historically, Hispanic adults that answer health surveys in Spanish report worse health than those who answer in English. This paper documents a growing English-Spanish gap in self-reported health (SRH) among Hispanic adults in the United States between 1997 and 2018. Data are from the 1997-2018 National Health Intervi…

English reading occupies a large proportion of English test papers, and English reading ability is crucial for college students. However, in the actual teaching process, teachers often neglect the cultivation of students' reading ability. Influenced by the new crown epidemic, various schools actively carry out online t…

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of international students has been enrolling in medical studies in the English language offered by the countries of Eastern Europe. Development of practical skills is likely more challenging when students learn in the English language, while their patients are non-English speaking perso…

The Persian language can be considered to have a relatively more complex and combinatorial morpho-syntax than languages like Chinese and English. For example, the Persian verbal system is largely constituted of light verb constructions, in which light verbs are combined with specific items coming from other grammatical…