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Prosodic patterning is known to affect the impression that speakers make on their listeners. This study explores prosodic phrasing in good public speakers of American English and Czech. Czech is a West Slavic language whose intonation is reported to be flatter and prosodic phrases longer than in English. We analyzed pr…

In this study, infant vocabulary development was tracked in a multilingual society (Singapore) within a socioeconomically diverse sample. The sample comprised 1316 infants from 17.4 to 27.7 months (669 females, 647 males; 88% Chinese race, 4% Malay, 4% Indian, and 0.004% mixed-race [4% declined to provide rac…

Realizing accurate recognition of Chinese and English information is a major difficulty in English feature recognition. Based on this difficulty, this paper studies the English feature recognition model based on deep belief network classification algorithm and Big Data analysis. First, the basic framework based on deep…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the external validity of the United Kingdom English version of the LittlEARS(®) Auditory Questionnaire with English-speaking families of Canadian children with normal hearing. METHODS: The United Kingdom English version of the LittlEARS was administered to English-speaking families of 130 ch…

This study investigated cross-language and writing system relationship in biliteracy acquisition of children learning to read two different writing systems-Chinese and English. Forty-six Mandarin-speaking children were tested for their first language (Chinese-L1) and second language (English-L2) reading skills. Compara…

Functionalist theorists have proposed a number of decisions that a speaker has to make regarding the packaging of messages in response to the knowledge shared by the speaker and the listener in a discourse situation. The present study examined some procedures used by French and English speakers to implement message pac…

In subject teaching, subject characteristics are the logical starting point for teaching development, and a deep understanding of subject characteristics is the basis for effective teaching. In practice, due to ignoring the cross-cultural understanding of middle school English subjects, there has been a long-term dilem…

Music and language share many attributes and a large body of evidence shows that sensitivity to acoustic cues in music is positively related to language development and even subsequent reading acquisition. However, such association was mainly found in alphabetic languages. What remains unclear is whether sensitivity to…

PURPOSE: This study assessed home and community language proficiency in Spanish-English bilingual university students to investigate whether the vocabulary gap reported in studies of bilingual children persists into adulthood. METHOD: Sixty-five early bilinguals (mean age = 21 years) were assessed in English and Spani…

Research suggests that English-language proficiency is critical if students who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) are to read as their hearing peers. One explanation for the traditionally reported reading achievement plateau when students are D/HH is the inability to hear insalient English morphology. Signing Exact En…

Nursing patients who speak no English has ethical, legal and professional implications for patients, relatives and healthcare staff. Appropriate communication between a patient and members of the healthcare team demonstrates respect, and empowers the patient to make healthcare decisions. Without appropriate translation…

Twenty monolingual English speakers and 40 native Spanish speakers, who were either relatively proficient or nonproficient in English, produced English /p/ at self-selected normal and fast speaking rates. The native English (NE) subjects showed much the same rate effect on voice onset time (VOT) seen in earlier studies…

This study investigated how speakers of Estonian as L1 with varying degree of proficiency in English judge grammaticality of bilingual constructions+from the point of view of adjective agreement. Estonian is rich in inflectional morphology, and adjectives agree with nouns in case and number. The empirical evidence from…

BACKGROUND: Journals that are not published solely in English have the titles of papers translated into English, the international language of medicine. The aim of this paper is to analyse the accuracy and quality of such translations in Medicina Clínica and to assess the influence of the morphology and syntax of…

Limited English proficiency (LEP) is challenging for oncology nursing because language barriers affect access to health services and patient outcomes. Strategies to mitigate this problem may differ based on the region of the.

This article deals with frequent errors and misuses of the words and expressions in English medical paper by Chinese authors. According to the frequency of appearance in English medical literature, the usage of certain frequent words and expressions is given, which may facilitate English medical paper writing of Chines…

A two-step interactive fusion of the improved BERT and attention mechanism is proposed as an intelligent assessment method for English translation teaching. The adaptive Fusion BERT Network (AFBNet) model is designed to address the difficulty of effectively utilizing complex linguistic knowledge in the English translat…

The identification of English consonants in quiet and multi-talker babble was examined for three groups of young adult listeners: Chinese in China, Chinese in the USA (CNU), and English-native listeners. As expected, native listeners outperformed non-native listeners. The two non-native groups had similar performance i…

OBJECTIVES: Medical education requires student comprehension of both technical (scientific/medical) and non-technical (general) vocabulary. Our experience with "English as a second language" (ESL) Arab students suggested they often have problems comprehending scientific statements because of weaknesses in their underst…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among the variables of the entrance examination for baccalaureate nursing program, records from senior high school, and records of the courses during nursing program. The variables of the entrance examination were the scores obtained by subjects on their entranc…