37,945,075 papers · showing 3,181–3,200 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 5484 ms

The implementation of voicelessness may be achieved by glottal spreading or glottal constriction, with both gestures inhibiting vocal fold vibration. Glottal spreading is associated with breathiness, and constriction with glottalization. In many dialects of En…

Recent evidence suggests that domain-general auditory processing (sensitivity to the spectro-temporal characteristics of sounds) helps determine individual differences in L2 speech acquisition outcomes. The current study examined the extent to which focused tr…

Using the traditional English teaching mode is difficult to help correct students, and it is difficult to achieve human-computer interaction in oral English communication. In order to improve the effect of English detection and improve teaching efficiency, thi…

Artificial intelligence and Fifth-Generation (5G) communication networks are examples of new information technologies that have aided and facilitated educational reform and progress. Built on the convincing requirements of college English education, with the a…

In the United States, Hispanics with limited English proficiency (LEP) experience disproportionate disparities in health services, a phenomenon that relates to communication and decision making. After a quality improvement review identified a disparity in obst…

Previous research suggests that English monolingual children and adults can use speech disfluencies (e.g., uh) to predict that a speaker will name a novel object. To understand the origins of this ability, we tested 48 32-month-old children (monolingual Englis…

Experience abroad has been recognized as one of the best investments for second or foreign language learning. A lot of research has examined its impact on language learning from linguistic as well as non-linguistic perspectives. Nonetheless, literature on the…

OBJECTIVE: To develop and test the reliability of a Thai version of the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS-Th). MATERIAL AND METHOD: A Thai version of the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS-Th) was developed after conducting many steps. The or…

Noise has the potential to impair cognitive performance. For nonnative speakers, the effect of noise on performance is more severe than their native counterparts. What remains unknown is the effectiveness of countermeasures such as noise attenuating devices in…

Bi- and multilingualism has been shown to have positive effects on the attainment of third and additional languages. These effects, however, depend on the type of bi- and multilingualism and the status of the languages involved (Cenoz, 2003; Jessner, 2006). In…

While orthographic and phonological preview benefits in reading are uncontroversial (see Schotter, Angele, & Rayner, 2012 for a review), researchers have debated the existence of semantic preview benefit with positive evidence in Chinese and German, but no sup…

A total of 104 six-year-old children belonging to 4 groups (English monolinguals, Chinese-English bilinguals, French-English bilinguals, Spanish-English bilinguals) were compared on 3 verbal tasks and 1 nonverbal executive control task to examine the generalit…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether, where and when manuscripts were published following rejection by the Journal of the Danish Medical Association, a general medical journal published in Danish. Similar previous studies have focuse…

The goal of this study was to address the relationship between language proficiency, language impairment and rehabilitation in bilingual Russian-English individuals with aphasia. As a first step, we examined two Russian-English patients' pre-stroke language pr…

There exists a substantial literature examining the effect on juror decision-making of extraneous demographic characteristics of plaintiffs and defendants. In most of these studies, members of groups that are perceived as being minorities or as belonging to on…

Spoken-word recognition in a nonnative language is particularly difficult where it depends on discrimination between confusable phonemes. Four experiments here examine whether this difficulty is in part due to phantom competition from "near-words" in speech. D…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether schizophrenia manifests itself differently in Xhosa-speaking South Africans, compared with English-speaking white South Africans. DESIGN: A comparative study of the presentation of schizophrenia in two groups of patients. SE…

INTRODUCTION: Lung cancer screening (LCS) with annual low-dose CT reduces mortality, but benefit depends on timely adherence to annual screening. Language barriers may introduce additional challenges to screening adherence. We examined the association between…

With the rapid development of English as a medium of instruction (EMI), many education researchers have attempted to examine the extent to which EMI courses contribute to students' academic success. In a similar vein, several scholars have endeavored to locate…

Proverbs are usually regarded as structurally fixed expressions. However, in daily communication, language users often change them to suit their communicative purposes in many ways, resulting in proverb variations. Using the data from the Corpus of Contemporar…