Speech produced in noise (Lombard speech) is more intelligible than speech quiet (plain speech). Previous research on the Lombard intelligibility benefit focused almost entirely how native speakers produce and perceive speech. In this study, we investigate size of both (American-English) non-native (native Dutch) English for listeners (Dutch Spanish). We used a glimpsing metric to measure energ...

AIMS To test the hypothesis that exposure to ambient language in the womb alters phonetic perception shortly after birth. This two-country study aimed to see whether neonates demonstrated prenatal learning by how they responded to vowels in a category from their native language and another non-native language, regardless of how much postnatal experience the infants had. METHOD A counterbalanc...

Dittrichia viscosa (L.) Greuter is a shrub native to the Mediterranean, however, declared as very invasive species in Australia and North America. Environmental (climatic) socio-economic (land abandonment) changes can trigger different adaptive mechanisms cause behavior, influencing invasion dynamics. Motivated by recently noticed change of D. behavior its Mediterranean habitat, we discuss prop...

Researchers stated that learning and applying certain set of lexical bundles of native lecturers by non-native lecturers would help students improve their proficiency through incidental vocabulary input. The present study shed light on the lexical bundles in hard science lectures used by Native and Non-native lecturers in international universities with the main purpose of analyzing the structu...