The question of interest in this study was whether bilingual individuals show superior executive control compared to monolingual participants. Findings are mixed, with studies showing advantage, disadvantage, or no difference between bilingual and monolingual speakers. In this study, we used different experimental conditions to examine implicit learning, resistance to interference, monitoring, ...

How does age of first bilingual language exposure affect reading development in children learning to read in both of their languages? Is there a reading advantage for monolingual English children who are educated in bilingual schools? We studied children (grades 2-3, ages 7-9) in bilingual Spanish-English schools who were either from Spanish-speaking homes (new to English) or English-speaking h...

bilingual dictionary use in l2 writing test performance has recently been the subject of debate. opinions differ according to how the trait is understood and whether the system favors the process-oriented or product-oriented views towards the assessment and writing skill. given the need for more empirical support, this study is aimed at investigating the availability of bilingual dictionary use...

Research on the development of speech processing in bilingual children has typically implemented a cross-sectional design and relied on behavioral measures. The present study is the first to explore brain measures within a longitudinal study of this population. We report results from the first phase of data analysis in a longitudinal study exploring Spanish-English bilingual children and the re...

More and more colleges have recognized the importance of bilingual teaching in improvement students' capability to integrate the specialized knowledge with the foreign language. Bilingual teaching courses have been designed to enhance the innovation of high education and improve the culture quality of students. Genetics is one of the most important courses for undergraduate students majored in ...

Learning semantic representations and tree structures of bilingual phrases is beneficial for statistical machine translation. In this paper, we propose a new neural network model called Bilingual Correspondence Recursive Autoencoder (BCorrRAE) to model bilingual phrases in translation. We incorporate word alignments into BCorrRAE to allow it freely access bilingual constraints at different leve...

Knowledge of typical phonological development in bilingual children is limited. Bilingual children are often compared to their monolingual peers to determine typical from disordered development; however, it is not known if this comparison is an appropriate one. Although there have been some studies examining accuracy of production in bilinguals (GildersleeveNeumann, Kester, Davis, & Peña, 2008;...

We improved the compositional term translation method by using comparable corpora. A bilingual lexicon consisting of pairs of word sequences within terms and their correlations is derived from a bilingual document-aligned corpus. Then, for an input term, compositional translations are produced together with their confidence scores by consulting the corpus-derived bilingual lexicon. Thus, we can...

This paper concerns the scanning, and grading of kiln-dried hardwood lumber. A prototype system is described that uses laser sources and a video camera to scan boards. The system automatically detects defects and wane, grades the boards, and then searches for higher value boards within the original board. The goal is to derive maximum commercial value based on current market lumber prices. This...

This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The research surveys 118 boards, upon which serve a total of 1405 directors. The findings indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic some aspects of a shareholder approach to governance. But nonprofit boards, in the main, indicate priorities and activities of a stakeholder approach to governance. The f...