37,959,085 papers · showing 1,541–1,560 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 5168 ms

It has been argued that children with dyslexia (DC) are poor at learning a foreign language (L2) and, in particular, reading foreign words. This assumption is so general that an Italian law (law 170, October, 2010) has established that DC may be completely exe…

The influence of syllabic structure, lexical class and stress patterns of known words on the acquisition of the English stress system was investigated in ten native Thai speakers. All participants were adult learners of English with an average length of reside…

Research in English suggests that syllables can be analyzed in terms of two subunits-the onset (defined as the initial consonant or consonant cluster) and the rime (the unit formed by the vowel and following consonant/s). This study investigated whether nonnat…

A common language is a precondition for a forum where scientific achievements as well as professional nursing issues can be discussed. It enables the professionals to exchange results and to create a new international terminology for future aspects. English sh…

Two pre-school children were recorded at regular intervals over a 9-month period while playing freely together. One child was acquiring English as a second language, whilst the other was a monolingual English speaker. The sociolinguistic domain was such that t…

The discussion on the role of American Sign Language (ASL) in deaf students' reading development has been long and contentious. The students' limited knowledge of English has been commonly perceived as a culprit in making reading difficult. However, a more nua…

Academic study writers utilize a specific set of discursive resources backed up by both cultural and professional norms to be endorsed by the intended audience. The current study aimed to investigate if there were any significant differences between English an…

Clear speech is a style that speakers adopt when talking with listeners whom these speakers anticipate may have a problem understanding speech. This study examines whether native English speakers use clear speech in conversations with non-native English speake…

This article reports on a longitudinal analysis of factors that predict the word reading skills in English and Spanish for a sample of 234 Spanish-speaking students in first grade. The children were assessed at the end of preschool, kindergarten, and first gra…

In the area of visual word recognition, there is considerable disagreement as to whether neighborhood effects for words in the lexical decision task are facilitatory or inhibitory: While they seem to be mostly facilitatory in English, they tend to be absent or…

Perceptually based vowel spaces are estimated for American English and Modern Greek by means of identifications of synthetic vowel sounds by native speakers of each language. The vowel spaces for American English appear to be organized in a sufficiently contra…

Poems were elicited from 133 English children between two and six and 171 Italian children between three and seven, using a similar technique, and the results were compared. Both groups produced large numbers of poems. There were great similarities and some di…

Minimal word pairs that are presumed to be perceptually difficult to differentiate when spoken in black English were examined relative to (1) black children's performance in differentiating the meanings of their own word pair productions and those of other bla…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the growth of utterance length, grammaticality, and subordination in Spanish and English in bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). METHOD: This is a longitudinal study of 100 ch…

Band importance functions (BIFs) for speech perception have been well characterized for native speakers of English tested with English speech-in-noise materials. Fewer datasets are available for speech-in-speech recognition or for listeners who are second-lang…

While English is only the native language of 7.3% of the world's population and less than 20% can speak the language, nearly 75% of all scientific publications are English.To describe how and why scientific contributions from the non-English-speaking world hav…

To better meet the needs of economic restructuring and industrial development in China, educators in vocational colleges have to find new approaches to narrow the gaps between the updated requirements from the employers for business English majors and the voca…

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate how the distinctive establishment of 2nd language (L2) vowel categories (e.g., how distinctively an L2 vowel is established from nearby L2 vowels and from the native language counterpart in the 1st formant […

Purpose Currently, there is no reliable instrument to measure naming abilities in bilingual speakers of English and French. The Boston Naming Test (BNT; Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1983 )is a widely used scale for clinical assessments of language function,…

BACKGROUND: Health literacy measures the degree to which individuals understand health information. It has not been studied among parents with limited English proficiency (LEP). OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine how well Spanish-speaking Latino parents with LE…