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OBJECTIVE: Patients with limited English proficiency often face barriers to accessing timely care. We evaluated whether Spanish-language Fast Pass messaging, combined with two-way Short Message Service (SMS) functionality, increased appointment acceptance rates among Spanish-preferring patients while maintaining equita…

Patterns of durational variation can offer rich phonetic cues to word structure, such as the number of syllables a word contains, or its morphological structure. In this study, we examine two types of durational cues:, which reflect phonological features, such as syllable count, and, which reflect phonological features…

The transition from high school to university places high demands on students' ability to manage their learning in a more self-regulated environment, particularly in their first year. Identifying how classroom anxiety, expectancy for success, and self-regulated learning strategies interact to each other in the Vietname…

The aim of this study was to develop the Mathematics Vocabulary Test (MVT)-an instrument to identify young children with a limited mathematics vocabulary-in a multilingual majority country-South Africa. This study consists of two substudies with children aged 3-8.5 years (= 988,= 429). In Study 1, a 26-item MVT was dev…

PURPOSE: The present study focused on the acoustic and articulatory realization of English lexical stress in Mandarin second-language (L2) speakers of English. We aimed to understand (a) how suprasegmental and segmental features were used in the acoustic domain and (b) how lingual and nonlingual articulators were manip…

PURPOSE: Within General American English (GAE), the grammar weaknesses of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have been documented with many tasks, including grammaticality judgments. Recently, Vaughn et al. replicated this finding with a judgment task targeting tense and agreement (T/A) structures for…

PURPOSE: The present study examines cross-sectional trends in performance on a quasi-universal non-word repetition (NWR) task. It also considers whether NWR performance is dependent on levels of exposure to a language and compares the performance of bilingual children across their two languages. METHOD: A cross-sectio…

PURPOSE: This study aimed to investigate treatment effects of naming therapy targeting nouns and verbs in Mandarin-English bilingual adults with aphasia (BWA). METHOD: Twelve Mandarin-English bilingual adults with chronic aphasia completed a 40-hr semantic-based naming treatment for either nouns or verbs. Eight of the…

Purpose The purpose of this clinical focus article is to provide a descriptive case study of a late-adopted, bilingual adolescent with cleft palate speech errors. Specifically, we examined the cross-linguistic generalization of remediated compensatory cleft errors, following treatment in English (second language) only.…

This study compared vocal development in Korean- and English-learning infants and examined ambient-language effects focusing on predominant utterance shapes. Vocalization samples were obtained from 14 Korean-learning children and 14 English-learning children, who ranged in age from 9 to 21 months, in monolingual enviro…

BACKGROUND: Health literacy is an issue that is influenced by social determinants and improved by community-based initiatives. Enhancing health literacy can lead to patient engagement, appropriate use of health care, and improved health outcomes. Understanding the community stories by working with vulnerable population…

PURPOSE: This study examined the nature of the relation between language-specific vocabulary and conceptual lexical-semantic skills with grammatical abilities within and across languages in preschool Latino dual language learners (DLLs). METHOD: Sixty-one typically developing, Spanish-English speaking DLLs from presch…

PURPOSE: Assessment tools are needed to accurately index performance in bilingual populations. This study examines the verbal fluency task to further establish the relative sensitivities of letter and category fluency in assessing bilingual language skills in Spanish-English bilinguals. METHOD: English monolinguals an…

Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country in which multiple languages are prominently spoken, including English and Mandarin Chinese. As psychological science continues to develop within Malaysia, there is a need for psychometrically sound instruments that measure psychological phenomena in multiple languages. For example,…

The present study tested the hypothesis that language distance between first language (L1) and second language (L2) influences the assimilation and accommodation pattern in Korean-Chinese-English trilinguals. The distance between English and Korean is smaller than that between Chinese and Korean in terms of orthographi…

PURPOSE: This 2-phase study aims to extend research on parent report measures of children's productive vocabulary by investigating the development (n = 38) of the Spanish Vocabulary Extension and validity (n = 194) of the 100-item Spanish and English MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories Toddler Short F…

The aim is to evaluate how language experience (Chinese, English) shapes processing of pitch contours as reflected in the amplitude of cortical pitch response components. Responses were elicited from three dynamic curvilinear nonspeech stimuli varying in pitch direction and location of peak acceleration: Mandarin lexic…

BACKGROUND: There is conflicting evidence of the healthy migrant effect with respect to mental health. This study aims to determine if there are differences in mental health and service use between Australian-born and foreign-born individuals living in South Australia and to consider the differing role of socio-demogra…

The current study investigated the scope of bilingual language control differentiating between whole-language control involving control of an entire lexicon specific to 1 language and lexical-level control involving only a restricted set of recently activated lexical representations. To this end, we tested 60 Dutch-Eng…

Interest in filariasis has found a new impetus now that neglected tropical diseases have their own journal. However, some of the advances published in renowned international journals have completely ignored previous publications on the subject, particularly those in languages other than English. The rapid assessment pr…