Ravelli Andrea Amelio, Bolognesi Marianna Marcella, Caselli Tommaso·Cognitive processing
A dataset of specificity ratings for English words is hereby presented, analyzed and discussed in relation with other collections of speaker-generated ratings, including concreteness. Both, specificity and concreteness are analyzed in their ability to explain decision latencies in lexical and semantic tasks, showing im…
"They sure aren't from around here": Children's perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English.
Henry Malachi, Bent Tessa, Holt Rachael F·Journal of child language
Children exhibit preferences for familiar accents early in life. However, they frequently have more difficulty distinguishing between first language (L1) accents than second language (L2) accents in categorization tasks. Few studies have addressed children's perception of accent strength, or the relation between accent…
An investigation of the effect of logical structures on Chinese preschool children's counterfactual reasoning development.
Wu Yanwen·Cognition
Counterfactual reasoning helps people to learn from the past to prepare for the future. In contrast to English with counterfactual markers that directly signal counterfactual reasoning, Mandarin Chinese indicates counterfactual reasoning by counterfactuality enhancers, which enhance rather than directly signal entry in…
Artificial Intelligence Technologies in College English Translation Teaching.
Wang Yuhua·Journal of psycholinguistic research
This paper explores the practical prospects for using artificial intelligence technologies in professional English-speaking translator education. At the online conference 'Translation Skills in Times of Artificial Intelligence' (DingTalk platform, January 2022), the teachers of higher education institutions in China pr…
Lightweight similarity checking for English literatures in mobile edge computing.
Liu Xiaomei, Gao Ailing, Chen Chengxiang, +1 more·Journal of cloud computing (Heidelberg, Germany)
With the advent of information age, mobile devices have become one of the major convenient equipment that aids people's daily office activities such as academic research, one of whose major tasks is to check the repetition rate or similarity among different English literatures. Traditional literature similarity checkin…
The Jew's penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England.
Gallagher Noelle·Medical humanities
This essay explores the contradictory, prejudicial attitudes towards circumcision and Jewish male sexuality circulating in eighteenth-century English print culture. I argue that while Jewish men had long been accused of lustfulness, effeminacy and sexual deviance, eighteenth-century culture added to these concerns a un…
Language-specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti-English sequential bilinguals.
McCarthy Kathleen M, Skoruppa Katrin·Child development
This study investigated the influence of first language (L1) phonology on second language (L2) early reading skills in Sylheti-English bilinguals (N = 58; 48% girls; British Bangladeshi) and their monolingual-English peers (N = 43; 45% girls; 96% White British, 4% multiethnic British) in a diaspora…
Audio-Visual Interactions During Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals.
Chung-Fat-Yim Ashley, Chen Peiyao, Chan Alice H D, +1 more·Motivation and emotion
Despite the growing number of bicultural bilinguals in the world, the way in which multisensory emotions are evaluated by bilinguals who identify with two or more cultures remains unknown. In the present study, Chinese-English bicultural bilinguals from Singapore viewed Asian or Caucasian faces and heard Mandarin or En…
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers.
Soo Rachel, Monahan Philip J·Language and speech
Heritage speakers contend with at least two languages: the less dominant first language (L1), that is, the heritage language, and the more dominant second language (L2). In some cases, their L1 and L2 bear striking phonological differences. In the current study, we investigate Toronto-born Cantonese heritage speakers a…
Characterizing first and second language rhythm in English using spectral coherence between temporal envelope and mouth opening-closing movements.
He Lei·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
This study investigated the rhythmic differences between first and second language English from 19 native speakers of American English and an equal number of native speakers of Mandarin. Speech rhythm was viewed from MacNeilage's frame/content theory. The spectral coherence between the temporal envelope and the mouth o…
Extending Brain-Computer Interface Access with a Multilingual Language Model in the P300 Speller.
Loizidou P, Rios E, Marttini A, +6 more·Brain computer interfaces (Abingdon, England)
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) such as the P300 speller have the potential to restore communication to advanced-stage neuromuscular disease patients. Research has improved typing speed and accuracy through innovations including the use of language models. While significant advances have been made, implementations have…
Defining Oracy: Second Language Listening and Speaking Motivation in Higher Education and the Role of Demographic Factors.
Qiu Xuyan, Xu Jian·Psychological reports
Since listening and speaking are two integral skills for effective second language (L2) communication, enhancing learners' motivation to listen to and speak in the target language will engage them in the learning process, eventually leading to improvements in these two skills. Yet despite its importance, L2 listening a…
On the English (1931) and Spanish (1932) translations of von Economo's classic monograph on encephalitis lethargica.
Triarhou Lazaros C·Journal of the history of the neurosciences
The "second" seminal monograph by Constantin von Economo on encephalitis lethargica appeared in print in German in 1929, following his initial report of the disease (eponymously associated with his name) before the Viennese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology and the publication of his "first" monograph on the subject…
Social-Structural Antecedents Come Forward to Elicit Envy to Distant Out-Groups.
Javakhishvili Nino, Butsashvili Nino, Vardanashvili Irina, +1 more·Frontiers in psychology
This study utilizing correlation, regression, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs), ANOVA, moderation and mediation analysis investigated connections of stereotypes, emotions, and sociocultural variables in a single-sample/single-group design. Prior to data processing, Georgian versions of the Stereotype Content Model (…
The effects of short-term L2 training on components of executive control in Indian bilinguals.
Rafeekh Riya, Krishna P Phani, Kapiley Keerthana, +1 more·Cognitive processing
This study investigated whether a short training (8 weeks) in the second-language (English) has any facilitative effect on components of executive functions in young adults. A pre-post design was used with two groups of participants: one group (experimental group) of students received English language training for…
Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language?
Rabadi Reem I, Rabadi Alexander D·Psychology research and behavior management
AIM: The study examines English Foreign Language (EFL) writing anxiety among medical students in terms of the levels, types, and causes of writing anxiety.
METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional study consisting of 684 first-year medical students from Jordanian universities. The participants responded to an online s…
Improving Tactile Codes for Increased Speech Communication Rates in a Phonemic-Based Tactile Display.
Martinez Juan S, Tan Hong Z, Reed Charlotte M·IEEE transactions on haptics
Previous research has shown evidence of tactile speech acquisition of up to 500 English words presented as tactile phonemic patterns using a 4-by-6 tactor array worn on the forearm. This article describes modifications to some of the tactile codes encoding the 39 English phonemes, and ten additional codes as abbreviate…
PMID32746379
DOI10.1109/toh.2020.3008869
PMCIDNot available
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Measuring the Effectiveness of the Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship Training in Hungary done through Translation.
Koren Réka, Woolley Scott R, Danis Ildikó, +1 more·Journal of marital and family therapy
Our study adds to the rising field of dissemination and implementation research on Emotionally Focused Therapy. We evaluated the psychometric characteristics of the Hungarian EFT-KACS, examined the impact of the EFT Externship training done through translation on Hungarian therapists, and we investigated how therapist…
In English, when two nouns in a disjunctive subject differ in number (e.g., the dogs or the cat), the verb tends to agree with the number of the nearer noun. This is exceptional, as a noun's linear proximity to the verb does not generally play a role in agreement. In the present study, we investigate a further puzzle a…