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L3 Acquisition of Simple and Present Progressive Tenses by Iranian EFL Learners

SAGE Open, 2015
This study sought to investigate the role of transfer at the initial states of the third language (L3) acquisition. The following hypotheses were investigated in this study: (a) the second language transfer hypothesis (“L2 Status Factor”) proposing that ...
Ali Akbar Jabbari, Hemrah Salimi
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A Cross-Linguistic Study of L3 Phonological Acquisition of Stop Contrasts

SAGE Open, 2021
The research reported in this article investigated how students learning Japanese or Russian as a third language (L3) perceived and produced word-initial stops in their respective target language and the link between perception and production.
Jiaqi Liu, Jiayan Lin
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Distributional Learning and Language Activation: Evidence from L3 Spanish Perception Among L1 Korean–L2 English Speakers

Languages
This study investigates L3 Spanish perception patterns among L1 Korean–L2 English bilinguals with varying L3 proficiency levels, aiming to test the applicability of traditional L2 perceptual models in multilingual contexts.
Jeong Mun, Alfonso Morales-Front
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The effect of previously acquired languages on third language acquisition

Heliyon
Our study explores how previously acquired languages affect third language (L3) acquisition. The learning and control groups composed adpositional phrases and relative clauses, and then judged sentences with strict/sloppy readings presented in their L3 ...
Xiaoyu Luan, Masakazu kuno, Ayaka Sugawara, Yayoi Kawasaki, Eriko Sugimori   +4 more
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Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang, Ruslana Romaniuk, Hristo L. Svilenov   +2 more
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Functional comparison of EncB and EncC cargo proteins in iron storage within the Myxococcus xanthus encapsulin

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Encapsulins are protein nanocompartments that play an important role in iron storage. In the Myxococcus xanthus encapsulin system, two cargo proteins called EncB and EncC contribute to iron mineralization. Here, we show that EncB and EncC generate iron‐containing minerals with distinct chemical compositions, suggesting that the composition of stored ...
Harry B. McDowell, Thomas Walther, Egbert Hoiczyk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Persian L1 and English L2 on the Acquisition of L3 Indefinite Frequency Adverbs [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning
This study aims to identify the role of transfer in the L3 acquisition of indefinite frequency adverbs, be it L1, L2 or both; and to find out whether CLI occurs on a feature-by-feature basis or as a wholesale phenomenon.
Emad Khosravani, Ali Jabbari, Ali Fazilatfar, Mohammad Rezai   +3 more
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A Low Psoas Muscle Index Was Associated With a Poorer Overall Survival in Patients Who Underwent Percutaneous Nephrostomy

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
In patients with malignant ureteral obstruction undergoing percutaneous nephrostomy, sarcopenia defined by a low psoas muscle index was independently associated with poor overall survival on multivariate Cox regression analysis, suggesting that preoperative assessment of psoas muscle index may aid prognostic stratification in this population.
Kota Shimokihara, Takashi Kawahara, Kazuhide Makiyama, Hiroji Uemura   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orientation towards the vernacular and style-shifting as language behaviours in speech of first-generation Polish migrant communities speaking Norwegian in Norway

Frontiers in Psychology
This study describes the patterns of dialect use among L3 Norwegian speakers born in Poland who have migrated to Norway. We collected the data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews recorded in Tromsø and Oslo, two different dialect regions, in order ...
Kamil Malarski, Chloe Castle, Witosław Awedyk, Magdalena Wrembel, Isabel Nadine Jensen   +4 more
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White Matter and Perivascular Imaging Changes in Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Peak‐width of skeletonized mean diffusivity (PSMD) and diffusion tensor imaging–analysis along the perivascular space (DTI‐ALPS), reflecting white matter integrity and glymphatic function, are altered in Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Debina Laishram, Guangwei Du, Sangam Kanekar, Nandakumar Nagaraja   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source