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The categorical perception paradigm was used to investigate whether French-English bilinguals categorize a code-switched word as French or English on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic information alone or whether they are influenced by the base-language context in which the word occurs, that is, by the language in whi…

We report data from the Small World of Singlish Words (SWOSW) Project, where word associations are obtained for a list of common Singlish words. Singapore English, colloquially known as Singlish, is a dialect of English spoken in Singapore. Free association data on these words were collected from a young adult populati…

This study reports that English speakers, after shadowing English-like nonwords beginning on /p/ with extended voice onset time, spontaneously shifted their subsequent reading productions of English words converging toward the shadowing targets. The extent of the imitative changes correlated positively with the speaker…

Medical researchers consider a publication in English to be of a higher standard than one in a local language such as Dutch. An international publication in English is appropriate when the readers addressed belong to an international scientific community, but the mere fact that a publication is in English is no indicat…

According to this study: Hospitalized children whose parents express limited comfort with English are twice as likely to experience harm-including preventable harm-due to medical care.Targeted strategies are needed to improve communication and safety for these children.

Asking staff to speak fluent English is well and good, but how will 'fluent' be defined? I have worked alongside colleagues for whom English is their first and only language, yet their manner of speech is appalling.

BackgroundEpilepsy is a common pediatric diagnosis, and recent national and international efforts aim to improve care for neurologic conditions. This study examined initial clinical differences between English- and Spanish-speaking pediatric epilepsy patients.MethodsWe used single-center retrospective analysis of pedia…

Phonological awareness is the stepping-stone to learning to read as it helps children map language sounds onto letters. Theories of bilingualism posit that phonological awareness is a language-common literacy skill. However, bilingual learners are also thought to build language-specific representations. To illuminate c…

The current study provides a phonetic perspective on the questions of whether a high degree of variability in pitch may be considered a characteristic, endonormative feature of Trinidadian English (TrinE) at the level of speech production and contribute to what is popularly described as 'sing-song' prosody. Based on re…

Differences in self-concept have been observed across cultures. Participants from collectivist societies tend to describe themselves using social and relational attributes (mother, student, Arab) more frequently than their individualist counterparts, who tend to rely more heavily on personal attributes (fun, tall, beau…

Infants' ability to segment words in fluent speech is affected by their language experience. In this study we investigated the conditions under which infants can segment words in a non-native language. Using the Head-turn Preference Procedure, we found that monolingual English-learning 8-month-olds can segment bisyllab…

INTRODUCTION AND AIM: This paper describes both the English health resource allocation and the attempt of its Hungarian adaptation. METHOD: We describe calculations for a Hungarian regression model using the English 'weighted capitation formula'. RESULTS: The model has proven statistically correct. New independent va…

Academic underpreparedness is an issue for many first-time-in-college students, particularly those entering community colleges. Whereas many underprepared students enroll in developmental education, research has indicated that traditional remediation may not increase students' chances for success. Therefore, states and…

PURPOSE: The primary objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between language use with different interlocutors, maternal education level and the expressive language skills of US English learners (ELs) in Spanish and English. METHOD: Two hundred and twenty-four Spanish-speaking ELs in kindergarten p…

PURPOSE: This study assessed if 6- to 8-year-old children benefit from a language mismatch between target and masker speech for sentence recognition in a 2-talker masker. METHOD: English sentence recognition was evaluated for English monolingual children (ages 6-8 years, n = 15) and adults (n = 15) in an English 2-tal…

Bilingualism is common throughout the world, and bilingual children regularly develop into fluently bilingual adults. In contrast, children with cochlear implants (CIs) are frequently encouraged to focus on a spoken language to the exclusion of sign language. Here, we investigate the spoken English language skills of 5…

Australia is a diverse society: 26% of the population were born overseas, a further 20% have at least one parent born overseas and 19% speak a language other than English at home. Paediatricians are frequently involved in the assessment and management of non-English-speaking-background children with developmental delay…