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This study aimed to advance our understanding of the reading profiles of bilinguals who are struggling readers. To this end, 198 English-French bilinguals attending French immersion were followed from Grades 1 to 3. Latent profile and transition analyses were conducted with measures of word-reading and reading comprehe…

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;<…

This cross-linguistic study examined inflectional morphology and word order in Moroccan Arabic (MA) and English-speaking persons with agrammatic aphasia (PWAA). MA has rich verbal morphology and flexible word order, whereas English has limited morphology and rigid order, providing a strong test of accounts of agrammati…

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…

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 present "visual world" eye-tracking study examined the time-course of how native and non-native speakers keep track of implied object-state representations during real-time language processing. Fifty-two native speakers of English and 46 non-native speakers with advanced English proficiency joined this study. They…

UNLABELLED: The current study investigated to what extent language and culture shape emotional experience. Specifically, we randomly assigned 178 Chinese&#xa0;English bilinguals to report on emotional situations, cultural exposure, engagement, and language proficiency in either English as a foreign language (LX) or Chi…

Information on methods of suicide is available online, and access to information on methods of suicide appears to contribute to a small but significant proportion of suicides. There is limited documentation of how methods of suicide are being profiled, as well as what content exists in other languages than English.We a…

The study examines school-aged L2 listeners' adaptation to an unfamiliar L2 accent and learner variables predicting such adaptation. Fourth-grade Mandarin L1 learners of English as a foreign language (= 117) listened to a story twice in one of three accent conditions. In the single-talker condition, the story was produ…

Consensus in preference is a central issue in landscape perception research. Several studies have highlighted the relationships between landscape preference and demographic variables; however, consensus among different countries' observers remains poorly understood. This study was primarily conducted to examine the con…

Previous studies have implicated migration and ethnicity as possible risk factors for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in developed countries. Using Texas education data, we calculated district-reported ASD prevalence stratified by geographic region, with reported home language as a proxy for immigration. Prevalence rati…

Existing work shows that readers often interpret grammatical errors (e.g., The key to the cabinets *were shiny) and sentence-level blends ("without-blend": Claudia left without her headphones *off) in a non-literal fashion, inferring that a more frequent or more canonical utterance was intended instead. This work exami…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this research was to examine the role of native language in the performance of youth athletes on a computerized neuropsychological test battery, the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Test (ImPACT). METHOD: The study compared the baseline test scores of 5545 participants whose nat…

PURPOSE: We examined the relationship between maternal level of education as an index of socioeconomic status (SES) on the narrative story retells of school-aged children who are English language learners (ELLs) to guide interpretation of results. METHOD: Using data available from the Systematic Analysis of Language T…

Norris and colleagues (Kinoshita & Norris, 2009; Norris & Kinoshita, 2008; Norris, Kinoshita, & van Casteren, 2010) have suggested that priming effects in the masked prime same-different task are based solely on prelexical orthographic codes. This suggestion was evaluated by examining phonological priming in that task…

Sentiment words, as fundamental constitutive parts of subjective sentences, have a substantial effect on analysis of opinions, emotions and beliefs. Most of the proposed methods for identifying the semantic orientations of words exploit rich linguistic resources such as WordNet, subjectivity corpora, or polarity tagged…

The finding that hyperarticulation of vowel sounds occurs in certain speech registers (e.g., infant- and foreigner-directed speech) suggests that hyperarticulation may have a didactic function in facilitating acquisition of new phonetic categories in language learners. This event-related potential study tested whether…