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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…

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…

Language barriers can impair communication and affect perioperative outcomes. This study examines the perioperative impact of limited English proficiency (LEP) on opioid consumption for pain management and clinical outcomes in both autologous breast reconstruction (ABR) and implant-based breast reconstruction (IBR).A r…

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…

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 background can show subtle effects on number comparison even with Arabic digits. Number pairs can be decade-unit compatible, i.e. the decision about number size is the same for unit and decade (e.g. 24 and 57, 2&#x2009;<&#x2009;5 and 4&#x2009;<&#x2009;7), or decade-unit incompatible (e.g. 29 and 57, 2&#x2009;<…

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…

BACKGROUND: Menstrual poverty is the inability to obtain menstrual products due to financial, social, cultural, and political barriers to accessing menstrual products. It affects 65% of adolescents in Nova Scotia, but its impact on adolescents in Canada remains unknown. The adolescent Menstrual Poverty Questionnaire (a…

Online hate speech has become a major social problem owing to the rapid growth of Internet communities. Relying on anonymity, people use hateful or abusive language for groups who are different from them. As these terms vary by region and are reflected in local languages, it is important to build robust hate speech det…

The current study focused on an understudied but most prominent bilingual population in the U.S. - heritage bilinguals. The current study combined data from eight MRI studies to examine the relationship between language experience and subcortical gray matter volume in 215 heritage Spanish-English bilinguals and 145 Eng…

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…

Currently, both manual and automatic evaluation technology can evaluate the translation quality of unreferenced English articles, playing a particular role in detecting translation results. Still, their deficiency is the lack of a close or noticeable relationship between evaluation time and evaluation theory. Thereupon…

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…

Empathy, as an essential personality trait of human beings, has been studied rigorously in the field of nursing and medical sciences. Nowadays, universities are also endeavoring to develop empathy with particular courses or tailored content among the students. The English language classroom acts as a dynamic platform t…

The current study investigated whether shared phonology across languages activates cross-language meaning when reading in context. Eighty-five bilinguals read English sentences while their eye movements were tracked. Critical sentences contained English members of English-French interlingual homophone pairs (e.g.,; Fre…

Many children learn language, in part, from the speech of non-native speakers who vary in their language proficiency. To investigate the influence of speaker proficiency on the quality of child-directed speech, 29 mothers who were native English speakers and 31 mothers who were native speakers of Spanish and who report…

Linguistic relativity effects arising from differences in terminology and syntax between languages have now been established in various domains of human cognition. Although metaphors have been shown to affect time conceptualisation, there is little evidence to date that the presence or absence of tense within a given l…