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The production of third-person /s/ on English verbs seems to be ahead of comprehension. Mainstream American English (MAE) is contrasted with African American English (AAE), in which /s/ is rarely supplied. Two studies explored what information children get solely from /s/ on the end of a verb. Sixty-five MAE- and 65 AA…

The cortical organization of language in bilinguals remains disputed. We studied 24 right-handed fluent bilinguals: 15 exposed to both Mandarin and English before the age of 6 years; and nine exposed to Mandarin in early childhood but English only after the age of 12 years. Blood oxygen level-dependent contrast functio…

Five experiments measured reading time for Spanish and English sentences containing a complex NP followed by a relative clause (e.g., ... "the daughter of the colonel who had an accident"). As has been previously reported, Spanish sentences were read more rapidly when the content of the relative clause forced it to mod…

The utterances of one French and one American infant at 0;5, 0;8, 0;11, and 1;2 were transcribed and acoustically analysed for syllable duration and vowel formant values. Both general and language-specific effects emerged in the longitudinal study. Initial similarities in the consonantal repertoires of both infants, in…

BACKGROUND: Fluid therapy is central to sepsis management, yet recommendations on fluid type, volume, optimization, and de-escalation remain uncertain. The 2025 ESICM guidelines highlight major evidence gaps in sepsis fluid therapy. Although large language models (LLMs) show promise for guideline interpretation and cli…

UNLABELLED: This study interpreted and translated a home visiting parenting program,(PFR), from English into Spanish and assessed if participants' preferred language for PFR (Spanish, English) moderated its effect. This was a randomized controlled trial (PFR v. control) among 252 Spanish- and English-speaking mother-in…

INTRODUCTION: Teacher resilience has emerged as a central construct for understanding professional sustainability, well-being, and adaptive functioning in English language teaching (ELT). Although conceptual and empirical interest in ELT teacher resilience has expanded rapidly, existing synthesis work has been limited…

Acculturation and parental educational involvement, life satisfaction, and depression are intertwined in Chinese immigrant families. This study investigated the relationship between Chinese immigrant parents' acculturation and educational involvement, with a particular focus on examining the mediating effects of their…

PURPOSE: The Functional External Memory Aid Tool (FEMAT) is a performance-based measure of applied cognitive-linguistic abilities and attempted use of compensatory aids and strategies (e.g., using a calendar to recall an appointment) through completion of simulated everyday living tasks. The FEMAT was originally develo…

Background The internet has become an increasingly popular tool for patients to find information pertaining to medical procedures. Although the information is easily accessible, data shows that many online educational materials pertaining to surgical subspecialties are far above the average reading level in the United…

OBJECTIVE: The present study asked if bilinguals who are immersed in their nondominant language are more likely to know some words only in their nondominant language. METHOD: The either-language scoring benefit (ELSB) reflects how many more points bilinguals get when credited for pictures named regardless of which lan…

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: Cirrhosis is a chronic progressive disease which requires complex care. Its incidence is rising in the Arab countries making it the 7th leading cause of death in the Arab League in 2010. ChatGPT is a large language model with a growing body of literature demonstrating its ability to answer cl…

OBJECTIVES: We examined whether language preference was associated with 90-day poststroke outcomes among Mexican American (MA) patients. METHODS: Patients with ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage from the population-based Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi project (2009-2018) were compared by languag…

Although the important role of children's executive function (EF) in their reading development has been well-established, less is known about the extent to which multilingual children's EF components vary and whether the variability in different EF abilities explains multilingual children's English reading achievement.…

BACKGROUND: Establishing equitable access to COVID-19 clinical trials is an important step in mitigating outcomes disparities. Historically, language has served as a barrier to equitable clinical trial participation. METHODS: A centralized research infrastructure was established at our institution to screen potential…

In the United States (US), limited English proficiency is associated with a higher risk of obesity and diabetes. “Intersectionality”, or the interconnected nature of social categorizations, such as race/ethnicity and gender, creates interdependent systems of disadvantage, which impact health and create co…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to understand individual-, social-, and system-level factors that affect compliance with recommended diabetic retinopathy (DR)-evaluations, and how these factors vary between English and Spanish speakers. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study using semi-structure…

We aimed to derive and test abbreviated versions of the Shortened Assessment of Health Literacy-Spanish and English (SAHL-S&E) that accurately identify English- or Spanish-speaking lower health literacy adult emergency department (ED) patients. Recursive partitioning of the SAHL-S&E was used to derive four abbreviated…

BACKGROUND: Europe has about 10,000 imported cases of malaria each year, or around 80 cases per 100,000 trips to endemic areas. Non-use of chemoprophylaxis in travellers remains the main reason for this. The proliferation of online travel blogs as a source of advice (sometimes the only one used) for preparing a trip to…

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) may be approached by multilingual speakers wishing to improve their intelligibility in English. Intelligibility is an essential element of spoken language proficiency and is particularly important for multilingual international students given their need to express complex ideas in an…