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It is important to understand a child's language background, to ensure appropriate assessment, diagnosis and treatment of speech sound disorders. Singapore is home to various cultures and languages, and local speech norms are needed to provide an accurate reference for assessing phonological disorders in the local popu…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the activity of daily living and behavioural and complex care needs of residents born in non-English-speaking countries in Australian aged care facilities. METHODS: De-identified cross-sectional data were provided by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for all residents in government-…

BACKGROUND: Normal reading relies on the reader making a series of saccadic eye movements along lines of text, separated by brief fixational pauses during which visual information is acquired from a region of text. In English and other alphabetic languages read from left to right, the region from which useful informati…

BACKGROUND: The Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) social support scale is a 19-item survey that measures four dimensions of functional support. The current study reports on the psychometric properties, factorial structure, and measurement invariance of the scale for a sample of English- and French-speaking Canadians aged 55…

We report here on an investigation into the possible factors which might have contributed to language impairment (LI) in EM, a 14-year-old Japanese-English bilingual girl. EM was born in the UK to Japanese parents with no other siblings, and used English to communicate with all other people except for her parents. A de…

Previous works in English have revealed that disfluencies follow regular patterns and that incorporating them into the language model of a speech recognizer leads to lower perplexities and sometimes to a better performance. Although work on disfluency modeling has been applied outside the English community (e.g., in Ja…

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to trace changes in brain activity related to progress in second language learning. Twelve English-speaking exchange students learning German in Switzerland were recruited. ERPs to visually presented single words from the subjects' native language (English), second language (Ge…

Brain activation associated with reading was investigated in ten normal Japanese volunteers (five highly literate in both Japanese and English) and ten American native English speakers (five highly literate in both English and Japanese) in order to determine the neuroanatomic substrates employed in reading the first la…

INTRODUCTION: Growing scholarly interest has emphasized the significance of non-cognitive variables in influencing learners' informal English acquisition through artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced digital platforms. Despite this, research remains sparse on how motivational constructs, emotional responses, particular…

OBJECTIVES: To describe a health system's experience administering patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to patients with a non-English preferred language (NEPL). MATERIALS AND METHODS: All PROMs within the Epic EHR were translated into 6 non-English languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Haitian Creole,…

In instructional contexts, instructor credibility or ethos is deemed to play a paramount role in teacher-student interaction and relationships. Much effort has been devoted to instructor credibility conceptualization, measurement, and its association with other instructional variables of interest in dominantly quantita…

Purpose Former studies suggested that music perception can help produce certain accentual features in the first and second language (L2), such as intonational contours. What was missing in many of these studies was the identification of the exact relationship between specific music perception skills and the production…

Child multilingual phonological errors are under-explored. Cross-linguistic studies suggest monolingual children make phonological errors that are subject to effects of language universality and ambient language characteristics. Bilingual Chinese children were observed to use not only typical, but also atypical phonolo…

Language bias arises in systematic reviews when non-English studies are excluded owing to resource constraints. Large language models (LLMs) can mitigate this problem through multilingual processing. To assess whether direct multilingual LLM processing reduces language-based disparities in systematic review screening p…

This study aimed to explore the effect of metalinguistic awareness, especially phonological awareness (PA) and morphological awareness (MA), on the bilingual vocabulary knowledge of Chinese DHH students (= 35, mean age = 15.09 years), after controlling for the effect of non-verbal intelligence. Participants completed m…

Speakers tailor their speech to different types of interlocutors. For example, speech directed to voice technology has different acoustic-phonetic characteristics than speech directed to a human. The present study investigates the perceptual consequences of human- and device-directed registers in English. We compare tw…

The language assistance and learning sectors have currently undergone restructuring in the period of fifth-generation (5G) communication and artificial intelligence, influenced by technologies, cloud services, learning techniques, speaker identification, language processing, virtual environments, expanded actuality, an…

Sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings, is receiving increasing attention in linguistics, psychology and related disciplines. One general question that is currently explored in this research is what sorts of semantic properties can be symbolically represented. Against this background, with…