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This experiment investigated the properties affecting the time taken to read individual words and to discriminate between words and non-words. The number of letters in a word was found to affect the time taken to read it aloud, but not the time taken to discriminate it from non-words. The frequency of a word affected t…

Seventy-five babies, 25 English, 25 West Indian, and 25 Cypriot, all born in London, were examined at 1, 3, and 9 months of age on Gesell and Sheridan scales. The age of walking alone was measured. All the babies were term normal deliveries, weighing 2500 g or more. They were examined under identical conditions. A stat…

: Accented speech reflects systematic deviation from target-language phonetic norms. This study demonstrates that perceived accent strength covaries with selective, gradient differences in phonological feature realization. We examine whether perceived accents in Hindi- and Tamil-accented English reflect uniform segment…

The complex dynamics of multilingual word recognition and the importance of considering language distance in the learning sequence are pivotal for comprehending multilingual language processing mechanisms. This study investigates brain activation during a translation recognition task, wherein trilingual individuals act…

Most research regarding early word learning in English tends to make the simplifying assumption that there exists a one-to-one mapping between concrete objects and their labels. In the current work, we provide evidence that runs counter to this assumption, aligning English with more morphologically-rich languages. We s…

In this study, a research model comprising four variables (loneliness, smartphone addiction, sleep quality, and students' attention in English as a foreign language class) was proposed and statistically examined. Previous literature has appeared to neglect these variables, which are considered to be essential to unders…

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to characterize verbal fluency performance in monolinguals and bilinguals using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). METHODS: A large sample of adults aged 45-85 (n = 12,875) completed a one-minute animal fluency task in English. Participants were English-speaking mon…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Limited English proficiency (LEP) impacts patient access to safe and comprehensive care during the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. In this review, we explore disparities in care delivery and outcomes that LEP women experience, and discuss the importance of providing language concorda…

While translation competence assessment has been playing an increasingly facilitating role in translation teaching and learning, it still failed to offer fine-grained diagnostic feedback based on certain reliable translation competence standards. As such, this study attempted to investigate the feasibility of providing…

Instances of person-reference, in the form of personal pronouns, names, or terms of endearment, are frequently used in child-directed speech. Examining this aspect of parental input is especially relevant to children with autism, who experience difficulties with person-reference. In this study, we compared the person-r…

The contentious question of bilingual processing cost may be recast as a fresh question ofquantitative preferences and structural adjustments for switching at particular junctures of two languages. CS strategies are established by considering prosodic and syntactic variables, capitalizing here on bidirectional multi-wo…

AIM: The study was to explore the significant influence of an English nursing course in nursing postgraduate internationalization education. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. METHOD: The research object included three grades (a total of 18) of nursing postgraduate students in the Nursing School of Yangzhou University.…

Bilingual children cope with a significant amount of phonetic variability when processing speech, and must learn to weigh phonetic cues differently depending on the cues' respective roles in their two languages. For example, vowel nasalization is coarticulatory and contrastive in French, but coarticulatory-only in Engl…

BACKGROUND: Children with dyslexia often show second-language reading and writing difficulties, but the cognitive mechanisms connected to this impairment need to be clarified. AIMS: The present study examined the neuropsychological mechanisms underlying learning English as a foreign language in 4th- to the 8th-grade I…

Purpose The purpose of this study was to characterize grammatical production in Jamaican Creole (JC) and English using the Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn; Scarborough, 1990 ) in a sample of typically developing bilingual Jamaicans. Method Spontaneous language samples were collected in JC and English from 62 preschoo…

This study investigated the use of the Spanish subjunctive in bilingual children with and without specific language impairments (SLI). Using an elicited production task, we examined: (1) the potential of the subjunctive as a grammatical marker of SLI in Spanish-English bilingual children, (2) the extent to which degree…

Although much is known about the linguistic function of vowel nasality, whether contrastive (as in French) or coarticulatory (as in English), and much effort has gone into identifying potential correlates for the phenomenon, this study examines these proposed features to find the optimal acoustic feature(s) for nasalit…

Second-language (L2) speech is consistently slower than first-language (L1) speech, and L1 speaking rate varies within- and across-talkers depending on many individual, situational, linguistic, and sociolinguistic factors. It is asked whether speaking rate is also determined by a language-independent talker-specific tr…

PURPOSE: We used an eye-tracking technique to investigate whether English listeners use suprasegmental information about lexical stress to speed up the recognition of spoken words in English. METHOD: In a visual world paradigm, 24 young English listeners followed spoken instructions to choose 1 of 4 printed referents…

OBJECTIVES: To establish transthoracic echocardiographic reference intervals in adult English springer spaniel dogs. METHODS: Forty-two healthy adult English springer spaniels were prospectively recruited from a general practice population in the UK. Animals were examined twice, at least 12 months apart, to exclude do…