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This paper examines naturalistic samples of adult-to-child speech to determine if variations in the input are consistent with reported variations in the proportions of nouns and verbs in children's early vocabularies. It contrasts two PRO-DROP languages, Italian and Mandarin, with English. Naturalistic speech samples f…

A method has been developed for simultaneous analysis of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) isoenzymes in small (2.5 mg) liver biopsy cores by starch gel electrophoresis. All the currently recognized hepatic isoenzymes coded by ADH1, ADH2, ADH3 and ADH4 can be detected as can the five ALDH is…

This article explores the experiences of linguicism of Quebec English-speaking and Franco-Ontarian postsecondary students and how they respond to these experiences. Using Goffman's theory of stigma and a qualitative approach, this article presents findings that emerged from interviews conducted between January and June…

I recently used The English Patient (both the novel and the movie) with an undergraduate health science class to explore the unique character of the patient-provider relationship. Through the interactions of a young Canadian nurse and her "English" patient, author Michael Ondaatje presents an interesting view of the nu…

This study explored native speakers' linguistic intuition as revealed in judging the grammaticality of sentences. Speakers of English (n = 36) and Japanese (n = 57) judged the relative grammaticality of sentences involving a verb which occurred together with one, two or three arguments. Findings showed that English spe…

We propose that shared features (noncontrastive) between African American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) may be more diagnostically salient than features not shared (contrastive) when identifying children of AAE language backgrounds with language disorders. The syntax of child speakers of AAE with la…

INTRODUCTION: Against the backdrop of English learning enthusiasm in China, many Chinese parents are using digital storybooks to support their children's early English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning. While previous research has demonstrated the benefits of dialogic reading of digital storybooks, the challenges pa…

In recent years, educational policies have focused on promoting bilingualism in schools. This brings with it new challenges for the consolidation of communicative habits and English language proficiency among students. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyse the influence of psychological needs satisfaction on studen…

This article presents the development of the "Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus," a stimulus set of recorded pseudo-words based on the pronunciation rules of English. The corpus contains 73 controlled audio pseudo-words uttered by two actresses in five different emotions (i.e., happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust)…

The present study investigated the temporal course of neural discriminations of acoustic cues of English lexical stress (i.e., pitch, intensity and duration) in Cantonese-speaking children. We used an event-related potential (ERP) measure with a multiple-deviant oddball paradigm to record auditory mismatch responses to…

Fellows in the 2024 joint JOGNN and NWH editorial fellowship address the challenges faced by authors for whom English is an additional language and offer practical recommendations for those authors and reviewers.

The director of workforce at a trust that struggles to recruit nurses from outside the European Union because many fail to pass the required English test decided to sit the exam himself.

A uniform health history form in seven languages, plus English, is presented. They may be copied for use by private practitioners, with the English form as a standard reference for the dentist.

Several experiments investigated the effect of word length on recognition thresholds for both familiar English words and unfamiliar pseudowords, the thresholds measured both with and without a stimulus mask. For familiar English words, length had no effect either with or without a mask. For unfamiliar pseudowords, leng…

In Australia there are many ethnic groups with varied social and traditional backgrounds. The English migrants, while being predominant in number, are considered to have the least problems, since their emotional and physical environment is similar to that of Australia. Migrants from Western Europe, while having an init…

INTRODUCTION: The Australian Cancer Plan prioritises individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds as a focus of interventions aimed at improving cancer care experiences and outcomes. We aimed to investigate differences in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) risk category classi…

BACKGROUND: Limited current information exists regarding discospondylitis within breeds commonly affected by congenital vertebral body malformations. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES: Report the prevalence of discospondylitis in English and French bulldogs and investigate for possible associations of discospondylitis with congen…

BACKGROUND: Biomedical natural language processing tasks are best performed with English models, and translation tools have undergone major improvements. On the other hand, building annotated biomedical data sets remains a challenge. OBJECTIVE: The aim of our study is to determine whether the use of English tools to e…

AIM: The aim of this study was to translate the Dutch patient-reported outcome measure-haemorrhoidal impact and satisfaction score (PROM-HISS) to English and perform a cross-cultural validation. METHOD: The ISPOR good practice guidelines for the cross-cultural validation of PROMs were followed and included two steps:…

The authors have observed a vertebral anomaly in French and English Bulldogs and termed this anomaly "vertebral vascular canal dysplasia (VVCD)." No previously published descriptions of this anomaly were found. The aims of this retrospective, multi-institutional, observational study were to (1) describe the clinical, C…