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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 blacks and whites and (2) white children's performance in diffe…

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 children (DLD,= 43) who were followed for 2 years with three t…

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 have been excluded from addiction literature, and put forward s…

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 vocational college education reality. Under this circumstance, a…

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 [F1] × 2nd formant [F2] vowel space) affected L2 vowel p…

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, but it is not suitable to assess bilinguals. Rasch analysis…

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 LEP understood the written instructions accompanying a routine…

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into English learning, AI-supported informal digital environments have emerged as an important space for learners' engagement with English reading. However, little is known about how English reading enjoyment develops over time in these contexts. Drawing o…

INTRODUCTION: Thyroid cancer treatment is complex. Patients may turn to the internet to gain insights into their condition. The quality of this information, especially for non-English speakers, is unclear. This study examines the quality and accuracy of online resources for both English and non-English speaking patient…

STUDY DESIGN: A total of 200 patients with low back pain (LBP) completed an English and Marathi Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) questionnaires (100 each), visual analogue scale, and Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire. OBJECTIVE: To validate the English and Marathi versions of ODI (version 2.1a). SUMMARY OF BACKGR…

BACKGROUND: Anglophone nurses face the challenge of communicating health information to patients who do not speak or understand English. Limited English-proficient patients are at higher risk of misinterpreting health information teaching. Successful recovery after coronary artery bypass graft surgery requires patients…

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…

This study investigated how the L1 phonetics-prosody interface transfers to L2 by examining prosodic strengthening effects (due to prosodic position and focus) on English voicing contrast (bad-pad) as produced by Korean vs English speakers. Under prosodic strengthening, Korean speakers showed a greater F0 difference du…

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…

We investigated how listeners of two unrelated languages, Korean and Dutch, process phonologically viable and nonviable consonants spoken in Dutch and American English. To Korean listeners, released final stops are nonviable because word-final stops in Korean are never released in words spoken in isolation, but to Dutc…

Behavioral studies showed that AS, an English-Japanese bilingual, was a skilled reader in Japanese but was a phonological dyslexic in English. This behavioral dissociation was accounted for by the Hypothesis of Transparency and Granularity postulated by Wydell and Butterworth. However, a neuroimaging study using magnet…

TCM viscera-state theory is an important component of TCM basal theories, accurate English translation of viscera-state terminology is directly related with correct and comprehensive understanding of overseas scholars for TCM visceral functional activities. In the past 30 years, TCM propagation in overseas makes the tr…

PURPOSE: Percent grammatical utterances (PGU) provides clinicians and researchers with meaningful information on young children's grammatical abilities (Eisenberg & Guo, 2016). However, work is still needed to place PGU within the context of conventional language sample measures and understand how PGU reflects grammati…

OBJECTIVES: Written discharge guidance for hospitalized pediatric patients should include language-appropriate key elements to ensure positive discharge outcomes. Our objective in this study was to determine the completeness of written pediatric discharge guidance and to test the hypothesis that Spanish-speaking famili…