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The current study examined the influence of phonological structure and language experience on the nonword repetition performance of bilingual children. Twenty-six Spanish-dominant and 26 English-dominant Spanish-English bilingual five-year-old children were matched on current exposure to the dominant language and year…

Thirty- and 36-month-old English speakers' (N = 106) ability to produce jokes, distinguish between humorous and sincere intentions, and distinguish between English- and foreign-language speakers, was examined in two tasks. In the Giving task, an experimenter requested one of two familiar objects, and a confederate alwa…

The earliest identified English definition of the word anaisthesia was discovered in the first edition (1684) of A Physical Dictionary, an English translation of Steven Blankaart's medical dictionary, Lexicon Medicum Graeco-Latinum. This definition was almost certainly the source of the definition of anaesthesia which…

A total of 8,251 references from seven medical journals from four language areas (English, French, German and Swedish) have been studied. The mean number of references per article varies from 13 to 27, the range is wide (2-63). Six per cent of the references are more than 25 years old and most of them could probably be…

BACKGROUND: Racial and ethnic disparities in pain management are well documented. Differences in pain assessment and management by language have not been studied in the postoperative setting in gynecologic surgery. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the association between language and immediate postoperative…

The rationality and timeliness of the comprehensive results of English course learning quality are increasingly important in the process of modern education. There are some problems in the scientific evaluation of English course learning quality and teachers' own English course learning, such as the need for proper adj…

Is it best to learn reading in two languages simultaneously or sequentially? We observed 2and 3grade children in two-way: (i) 50:50 or Simultaneous dual-language (two languages within same developmental period) and (ii) 90:10 or Sequential dual-language (one language, followed gradually by the other). They were compare…

This study examined imitation of a voice onset time (VOT) continuum ranging from/da/to/ta/by by subjects differing in age and/or linguistic experience. The subjects did not reproduce the incremental increases in VOT linearly, but instead showed abrupt shifts in VOT between two or three VOT response "modes." The locatio…

PURPOSE: This study examined relationships among English reading comprehension, nonverbal working memory, and American Sign Language (ASL) receptive comprehension in prelingually deaf adults who acquired English as an early first language (L1) and learned ASL as a second language (L2) after childhood. METHOD: Particip…

For the purpose of a contrastive analysis only distinctive formal elements and functions are to be considered. The latter are "lexical or syntactic disambiguation", "syntactic characterization" and "communicative differentiation". In German, modal particles and intonation render expressive functions which are conveyed…

BACKGROUND: Anxiety disorders have been a challenging problem across all age groups, especially for college students, and they can have detrimental effects on students' academic performance, especially for English learning. However, the underlying mechanisms about the association between anxiety disorders and English w…

Despite extensive research on motivation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) settings, demotivation within medical education remains underexplored. This mixed-method study employs the Situated Expectancy-Value Theory (SEVT) to investigate the demotivation of English learning experienced by 426 Chinese medical studen…

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To evaluate whether language of choice affects compliance with speech therapy for voice disorders. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective chart review. METHODS: A retrospective study was performed at Kaiser Permanente Northern California to compare compliance with referrals to speech therapy for voice dis…

BACKGROUND: Bariatric centers frequently provide preoperative educational programs to inform patients about the risks and benefits of weight loss surgery. However, most programs are conducted in English, which may create barriers to effective treatment and access to care for non-English speaking populations. To address…

OBJECTIVES: To identify the availability of foreign language services in pharmacies near a medical clinic serving a large immigrant population and determine whether the type of observed drug therapy problems differed between English- and non-English-speaking patients at this clinic. SETTING: A community health care ce…

Mechanics play as essential a role as language presentation is the English writing of an andrological paper, and directly influence its quality and publication. They, however, frequently fail to receive due attention. In view of the typical problems among Chinese authors in English writing, and with a wide range of SCI…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the potential clinical use of English-only measures of tense/agreement to identify Spanish-English bilingual children with developmental language disorders (DLDs). METHOD: Participants included 129 Spanish-English bilingual children aged 4-7 years; 55 children were classif…

INTRODUCTION: The present study aims to advance our understanding of bilingual children's L2 morpheme acquisition variability by examining the child-internal factor of L1 transfer, child-external factor of L2 exposure, as well as the linguistic factor of morphological salience. METHOD: Drawing on naturalistic conversa…

BACKGROUND: Hispanic people with Medicare report worse patient experiences than non-Hispanic White counterparts. However, little research examines how these disparities may vary by language preference (English/Spanish). OBJECTIVES: Using Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey d…

OBJECTIVES: To present the prevalence and distribution of heart disease as well as echocardiographic findings in English Bull Terriers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred and one English Bull Terriers were retrospectively included to evaluate the prevalence and distribution of heart disease. Secondly, a retrospective…