The purpose of this study was to examine the use of vocal fry in young adult Standard American-English (SAE) speakers. This was a preliminary attempt (1) to determine the prevalence of the use of this register in young adult college-aged American speakers and (2) to describe the acoustic characteristics of vocal fry in these speakers. Subjects were 34 female college students. They were native S...

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions throughout the globe, and this has also impacted people of the Arabic-speaking countries, especially those in higher-income, oil-producing countries. The prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents ranges from 5% to 14% in males and from 3% to 18% in females. There is a significant increase in the incidence of obesity with a prevalence of 2%-55% in...

Objectives: Studies have suggested that the prevalence of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) is higher among Asian populations. This study compared and severity IGD between English-speaking gamers Chinese-speaking gamers. Correlates were investigated in global sample. Methods: A total 101 130 recruited via a social marketing campaign participated an online questionnaire. Results: The was 0.0% 0.8%,...

One of the most timeless and universal activities, in which human beings across cultures participate, is speaking to children. This study investigated the differences between child-directed speech (CDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS) on measures of mean length of utterance (MLU), number of utterances, number of different words (NDW), and total number of words (TNW). In addition to examining th...

Teaching ESL to adults means being awed every day as we witness the tenacity and perseverance of immigrants carving out better lives for themselves and their families. —Spelleri, 2002

Utterances of five infants with their parents were recorded every month from their birth until 30 to 60 months old to investigate spoken language development from the viewpoint of acoustic characteristics. Recording time was at least one hour per month. An infant speech database is now being developed from the recordings. Each entry of the database contains a speech file of an utterance and its...

Brain imaging of adults during false-belief story tasks consistently shows activation of the temporoparietal junction in English-speaking Americans and German-speaking Europeans. Kobayashi et al. find this observation in adult English speakers but not in English-speaking children or in English-Japanese bilingual persons. This finding suggests a cultural or linguistic influence on location of br...

this study intended to develop a model describing speaking strategies for efl learners by taking into account the effects of learners’ gender and proficiency on the application of strategies. accordingly, this study was planned to have two main analyses, namely qualitative and quantitative. in this respect, 30 efl learners' viewpoints were sought, and then, based on the elicited responses, a 21...

Early morphosyntax is very rich and uniform in young French-speaking children. The present study aims to give a thorough analysis of the morphosyntax produced at the outset of multi-word speech, with a classification of free language produced at 2;0 by 27 French-speaking children. The corpus was fully tagged by an automatic part-of-speech tagger. A classification performed with words taken in i...