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BACKGROUND: Language proficiency is crucial in healthcare, and non-native English-speaking nurses may experience significant anxiety when communicating in English, which can potentially impact their performance and patient outcomes. AIM: This study aims to develop and validate a survey to measure second language anxie…

This Commentary describes some upcoming changes to the submission and payment procedures to the Biophysical Society of Japan's English language journal "Biophysics and Physicobiology" (BPPB) that will facilitate a much easier and cheaper publishing experience for all scientists-whether they be Japan-based or located in…

We describe the creation of a massively parallel corpus based on 100 translations of the Bible. We discuss some of the difficulties in acquiring and processing the raw material as well as the potential of the Bible as a corpus for natural language processing. Finally we present a statistical analysis of the corpora col…

This paper analyzes the emergence of scalar additive meanings. We show that in Basque the same particle ere can obtain both the "simple additive" reading (akin to English too) and the "scalar additive" reading (akin to English even) but we argue that we do not have to distinguish two types of ere. We provide evidence,…

Finding Freud not properly on his feet, Rycroft turned him upright. Not by producing yet another school of psychoanalysis, but by pseudo-innocently amending its German polysyllabic script radically into English, and so revealing too how humanity is distinctly and to the very depths a symbolising animal. The present stu…

The thematic series 'Beyond English: Accessing the global epidemiological literature' in Emerging Themes in Epidemiology highlights the wealth of epidemiological and public health literature in the major languages of the world, and the bibliographic databases through which they can be searched and accessed. This editor…

Auditory feedback in the headphones of talkers was manipulated in the F1 dimension using a real-time vowel formant filtering system. Minimum formant shifts required to elicit a response and the amount of compensation were measured for vowels across the English vowel space. The largest response in production of F1 was o…

The Dutch translation of the manuscript of "Observations in Midwifery" (ca. 1672) by the English man-midwife Percival Willughby (1596-1685) - pupil and friend of William Harvey - was printed in The Netherlands in 1754 and antedated the English edition (1863) by more than a century. This delay may explain why this valua…

In order to develop an additional measure of availability for the nouns from Paivio, Yuille, and Madigan's (1968) list, we used a CD-ROM version of theOxford English Dictionary (OED) to obtain the number of times a word was used to define other words. This variable was added to Rubin and Friendly's (1986) set of measur…

A patient tells his home health nurse through an interpreter that he does not understand the treatment consent form. The form is printed in English. The patient understands only Spanish. A young woman learned her child's home antibiotic therapy through a demonstration given in Spanish. She now wants to review the proce…

The perception of life events of Italian and English subjects was compared. Psychiatric patients and relatives rated 58 life events according to the degree to which the event was regarded as upsetting. The similarity between the two groups was noted, although Italian subjects tended to rate events as less upsetting tha…

Urinary catecholamine excretion rates, previously shown to be related to lifestyles and environmental influences, were investigated in three traditional-living populations and in an English population. Significant inter-population differences in excretion rates and in creatinine-related excretion were observed. These i…

Empirical research on language complexity has shown that languages and varieties can and do differ in their complexity. One of the key triggers responsible for this observed variation is language contact as non-native acquisition. The influence of language contact on complexity is, however, not uncontroversial: While a…

Scientific text continues to increase rapidly as compared to the past. In many fields the same word may have various meanings. Machine translation is a basic problem in natural language processing that is used in both general and specialized fields, including scientific, medical, literary, and commercial translation. D…

The fluency of second language (L2) speech can be influenced by L2 proficiency, but also by differences in the efficiency of cognitive operations and personal speaking styles. The nature of cognitive fluency is still, however, little understood. Therefore, we studied the cognitive fluency of Finnish advanced stude…

We conducted a megastudy to examine the spelling of American English monosyllables with typewritten responses. We related both sublexical and lexical/semantic factors to spelling accuracy and reaction time (RT) for the first keypress and response duration for spelling 1,856 monophonic monosyllables. We found that (a) e…

This study examines production of the vowels /æ/, /ɛ/, and /e/ among three different English-speaking ethnic populations in Manitoba, Canada, focusing on patterns of raising and vowel overlap in prevelar contexts. Although raising of /æ/ before /ɡ/ has been documented for the Prairies region of Ca…

Morphological knowledge has been established as a critical sub-skill in the learning of bilingual reading and a strong predictor of spelling, word reading, and reading comprehension skills. The goal of this study was to investigate the prediction of morphological knowledge to reading comprehension in 185 university-lev…

Although research on peer feedback in second language teaching and learning has been developed from various perspectives over the past three decades, less is known about feedback in translation settings. This study reports the results of a quasi-experiment with advanced second language learners in a Chinese-English tra…