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Clinical Validity of the Oral Frailty Five‐Item Checklist (OF‐5) for the Diagnosis of Oral Hypofunction

Gerodontology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to clinically validate the Oral Frailty Five‐item Checklist (OF‐5) by clarifying the relationship between its score and the diagnosis of oral dysfunction, as well as its association with seven sub‐items. Background Assessing oral frailty is important for preventing frailty in older adults. The recently developed OF‐5
Tomohiro Tabata, Yukiko Hatanaka, Masatsugu Teraoka, Mana Hirayama, Kai Koyanagi, Housei Suzuki, Junichi Furuya   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resources creation of Bengali for SPPAS

Journal of Information and Telecommunication
The development of HLT (Human Language Technology) tools inevitably involves the need for language resources. However, only a handful of languages possess such resources for free.
Moumita Pakrashi, Brigitte Bigi, Shakuntala Mahanta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Listening Strategy Intervention on the Development of Young Learners’ L2 Listening Skills

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The impact of strategy intervention on second language (L2) listening development has been explored in various contexts; however, research on both implicit and explicit listening strategy interventions for young learners remains limited.
Pelin Irgin, Munevver Ilgun‐Dibek
wiley   +1 more source

Nordic umlaut, contrastive features and stratal phonology

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2021
The data puzzle of Proto-Nordic rounding and front umlauts is addressed by positing an undominated markedness constraint that bans [±round] moraic stem-final segments. A related constraint restricts the assignment of [±round] in affixes.
Johan Schalin
doaj  

The Development and Validation of the Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the increasing need for effective Chinese vocabulary assessments, this study developed the Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test (CVLT), a test designed for intermediate‐level Chinese as a second or foreign language (CSL/FL) learners, based on the vocabulary lists (levels 4–6) from the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for ...
Shiwei Qi, Ailan Fu
wiley   +1 more source

The interaction of syllabification and underspecification in Dutch

, 1987
In this paper the vowel system of Dutch will be briefly outlined within an autosegmentally based Underspecification framework as outlined by Archangeli (1984).
Scholten, Lydia
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Pre‐Task Explicit Instruction, Input Modality, and Working Memory in L2 Oral Self‐Repair

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the central role of tasks in language education and ensuing research documenting how task‐related variables might affect language performance and learning, it remains unclear whether pre‐task explicit instruction, input modality, and working memory (WM) influence how learners monitor and repair grammatical structures in real‐time ...
Reza Yadollahpour, Mostafa Pourhaji, Michael Sadeghi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Syllabification of Consonant Clusters Across Internal Word Boundaries in English Compound Words.

, 1998
يدور موضوع هذا البحث حول الأسس التي يتم بموجبها تقطيع الصوامت الواقعة على الحدود الداخلية، أي تعيين المقطع الذي تنتمي إليه هذه الصوامت، في الكلمات المركبة (Compound words) في اللغة الإنجليزية.
أبو سليم, عصام
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Measuring Interactional Competence in a Japanese University EFL Speaking Context

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ability to interact is an integral aspect of speaking proficiency. Therefore, methods of assessing interaction need to be incorporated into second language (L2) speaking tests. The main purpose of this exploratory study is to attempt to quantify interactional competence (IC) in a Japanese university EFL (English as a foreign language ...
Paul Garside
wiley   +1 more source

The Pen is Mightier Than the Algorithm? A Multilevel Linguistic Comparison of LLM‐ and Human‐Translated Research Article Abstracts

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Translating local research into English as a lingua franca (ELF) connects local scholarship with global readership, but this process remains constrained by language barriers. Large language models (LLMs) offer advanced accessible solutions, but their responsible integration into academic translation requires a deeper understanding of the ...
Yueyue Huang, Yao Yao, Dechao Li
wiley   +1 more source