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We explore two aspects of exovergence: we test whether smaller binocular fixation disparities accompany the shorter saccades and longer fixations observed in reading Chinese; we test whether potentially advantageous psychophysical effects of exovergence (cf. Arnold & Schindel, 2010; Kersten & Murray, 2010) transfer to…

Nowadays, English is the lingua franca of science, and the reference lists in most English articles are dominated by other English articles. Publications in languages other than English are most often in French, Italian, Spanish, or German. The minority written languages, that is, non-alphabet languages, have often not…

Researchers have suggested that there is a noun bias in children's early vocabularies brought about by features of adults' child-directed utterances, which may vary across languages (E. V. Bates et al., 1994; D. Gentner, 1982). In the present study, the authors explored noun bias in 60 Filipino-English bilingual childr…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the present study was to examine the neurocognitive profiles associated with limited English proficiency (LEP). METHOD: A brief neuropsychological battery including measures with high (HVM) and low verbal mediation (LVM) was administered to 80 university students: 40 native speakers of Engl…

The research investigated whether a bilinguals' second language (L2) is activated during a task involving only the first language (L1). We tested the hypothesis that the amount of L2 interference can vary across settings, with less interference occurring in testing locations where L2 is rarely used. In Experiment 1, we…

We present a preliminary study of the duration of rhoticity in coda-r words in American English. We note that traditional descriptions of American English phonology divide these words into two categories: words that end in a vowel followed by a separate /r/ segment (plus possible final consonant), and words that end in…

Auditory discrimination of bilingual voices has proven to be challenging for listeners. This can be attributed to the structure of acoustic voice dimensions, which depends not only on speaker-specific acoustic features but also on language-dependent characteristics. This study investigates how acoustic voice dimensions…

BACKGROUND: When publishing qualitative research in international journals, researchers studying non-English-speaking participants provide quotes in English language. This is an issue of increasing concern given the need to be rigorous to represent a diversity of participants within their context, beyond how language (…

Acoustic cues to deception on a picture naming task were analyzed in three groups of English speakers: monolinguals, bilinguals with English as their first language (English-L1), and bilinguals with English as a second language (English-L2). Results revealed that all participants had longer reaction times when generati…

The study explored the influence of second language proficiency on the kinematic duration of single words. Participants produced real and novel words with variable stress targets (e.g., trochaic and iambic) embedded in first language (L1) and second language (L2) sentence frames. Participants were monolingual English s…

How polysyllabic English words are analyzed in silent reading was examined in three experiments by comparing lexical decision responses to words physically split on the screen. The gap was compatible either with the Maximal Onset Principle or the Maximal Coda Principle. The former corresponds to the spoken syllable (e.…

Lexical decision vocal reaction times of a group of English-proficient, Chinese-Mandarin speakers and group of monolingual, English speakers were measured to unilaterally presented concrete and abstract English words. Results of an ANOVA showed a significant group x visual field x stimulus type interaction. Post-hoc an…

Longitudinal predictors of writing composition in Chinese and English written by the same 153 Hong Kong nine-year-old children were tested, and their production errors within the English essays across ten categories, focusing on punctuation, spelling, and grammar, were compared to errors made by ninety American nine-ye…

Although great development has been achieved in the English translation of traditional Chinese medicine terms, there are still a lot of nonstandard English translation of traditional Chinese medicine recipes name, which were discussed by the authors in the paper.

BACKGROUND: In the context of rapid advancements in intelligent language technology, issues concerning professional identity and learning engagement among English majors have become increasingly prominent. Some students experience unclear professional identity and insufficient academic engagement, which affects the qua…

INTRODUCTION: In the last couple of decades, Amharic-English translation has greatly improved from a rule-based approach to contemporary systems that apply neural networks. Even after these advancements, problems remain because of the Amharic language's resource-scarce nature, such as inadequate datasets, tools for wor…

While previous studies have examined front-line teachers' written feedback practices in second language (L2) writing classrooms, such studies tend to not take teachers' language and sociocultural backgrounds into consideration, which may mediate their performance in written feedback provision. Therefore, much remains t…

In response to pedagogical reforms in English language teaching (ELT) within Chinese higher vocational education, growing attention has been placed on cultivating students' professional oral English competence alongside intercultural communicative competence (ICC), which are global skills required in the educational an…