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Normative medical language and local interpretation of diseases: An analysis of Tafi medical word formation processes 规范医学语言与疾病的地方解释：塔非医学构词过程分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100065

Nathaniel Glover-Meni , Dominic Dankwah Agyei , Joy Ato Nyarko , Peter Kwabla Agbezorlie , Phillips Kofi Atsu Larnyo

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Linguistic insights into dementia from 1994 to 2023: A structural topic modeling-assisted bibliometric analysis 从1994年到2023年对痴呆症的语言学见解：结构主题建模辅助文献计量分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100064

Hong Lei , Zhanhao Jiang

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Proximisation, metaphor and threat in experiences of insect and bug phobias 虫虫恐惧症体验中的近因、隐喻与威胁

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100052

Olivia Knapton

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A corpus-assisted analysis of language convergence and meaning divergence of ‘mental health’ in Asian countries 语料库辅助分析亚洲国家“心理健康”的语言趋同和意义差异

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100053

Theng Theng Ong

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Do grammatical variations between languages influence early language acquisition in autistic individuals? 语言之间的语法差异是否会影响自闭症患者的早期语言习得？

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100056

Alessandro Tagliavia , Edward Khokhlovich , Andrey Vyshedskiy

{"title":"Do grammatical variations between languages influence early language acquisition in autistic individuals?","authors":"Alessandro Tagliavia , Edward Khokhlovich , Andrey Vyshedskiy","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Could grammatical variations between languages influence early language acquisition? This question has been largely overlooked, likely due to the challenges of studying it in typically developing children. By around four years of age, most typically developing children naturally acquire advanced syntactic abilities. In contrast, autistic children often face significant difficulties with language acquisition, with approximately 40 % of those diagnosed with autism never achieving full syntactic language comprehension. If grammatical differences between languages impact syntactic acquisition, autistic individuals speaking different languages could potentially display distinct syntactic development trajectories. To explore this, a longitudinal study was conducted involving children aged 2–5 years diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who utilized a language therapy app that also gathered parent-reported language assessments. Participants were divided into groups based on their native languages: English (N = 5557), Spanish (N = 1763), Portuguese (N = 830), Italian (N = 417), and Russian (N = 313). A linear mixed-effects model with repeated measures was employed to compare each pair of language groups. The analysis revealed no significant differences in the 3-year trajectories of receptive and expressive language development between the groups. These findings suggest that all studied languages are equally effective in supporting language development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"3 2","pages":"Article 100056"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144307057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Corrigendum to “What drives task performance in fluency tasks in people who had COVID-19?” [Language and Health 2 (2024) 100031] “是什么推动了COVID-19患者在流利性任务中的任务表现？”[语言与健康2 (2024)100031]

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100055

Adrià Rofes , Marta Almeria , Barbara Sampedro , Roel Jonkers , Joan Deus , Jerzy Krupinski

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Aging and language: A case study of a supercentenarian 老龄化与语言：一位超级百岁老人的个案研究

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100051

Yueguo GU , Yongwei ZHANG

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‘Many of our customers are discharged patients’: A linguistic study of references to healthcare users in a Finnish pharmacy magazine “我们的许多客户都是出院病人”：芬兰药房杂志中对医疗保健用户的参考的语言研究

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100054

Satu Johanna Siiskonen

{"title":"‘Many of our customers are discharged patients’: A linguistic study of references to healthcare users in a Finnish pharmacy magazine","authors":"Satu Johanna Siiskonen","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This linguistic study examines the usage and semantics of the Finnish lexemes <em>potilas</em> 'patient' and <em>asiakas</em> 'customer, client' in journalistic texts discussing matters relevant to the pharmacy profession. The theoretical framework of the analysis is cognitive linguistics, particularly frame semantics. The data were collected from articles published in a Finnish pharmacy magazine, <em>Apteekkari</em>, which represents the interests of proprietary pharmacists. The situational and functional semantic frames of a total of 137 occurrences of <em>potilas</em> ‘patient’ or <em>asiakas</em> ‘customer, client’ are compared. The analysis shows that the semantic frames of <em>potilas</em> ‘patient’ and <em>asiakas</em> ‘customer, client’ in <em>Apteekkari</em> are quite distinct. The magazine primarily uses the term <em>potilas</em> ‘patient’ for individuals interacting in the situational frame of a healthcare setting other than a pharmacy, or in the context of healthcare in general. However, although Finnish pharmacies also offer healthcare services, individuals interacting with pharmacies are generally referred to as <em>asiakas</em> ‘customer, client’, irrespective of their health status. <em>Asiakas</em> ‘customer, client’ is more common than <em>potilas</em> ‘patient’ in all functional frames of pharmacy services, including medical treatment and care. The terms <em>customer</em> and <em>client</em> may to some language users suggest a commercial and transactional rather than a caring relationship, and using the term <em>patient</em> in certain care-related contexts could support the recognition of pharmacists as healthcare providers. To better understand this aspect, future research should investigate perceptions of these terms among pharmacy service users and healthcare stakeholders, particularly in the context of pharmaceutical care.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100054"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144298198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Study of English as an additional language in students with dyslexia 英语作为一种附加语言在有阅读障碍的学生中的研究

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.100045

Maria Vilanova Cifre , Lluís Barceló Coblijn

{"title":"Study of English as an additional language in students with dyslexia","authors":"Maria Vilanova Cifre , Lluís Barceló Coblijn","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.100045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.100045","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the difficulties dyslexic students encounter while learning English as a foreign language. It is not only about stating that dyslexic students have problems when learning a foreign and opaque language as English, but also about finding out where the difficulties rely on. According to some researchers, English spelling is an ‘opaque’ language that causes difficulties due to its consonant clusters and its complex syllabic structures. The main aim of this essay is to discover the difficulties Catalan speakers encounter when learning this language. Throughout this paper, there is an identification of the main characteristics of Catalan dyslexic students within English learning. This experimental proposal is aimed at analysing the effects of this reading disorder when learning a foreign language with the methodology of participants taking two tests: in English and in Catalan. Each test contains four different activities: a line rhyming exercise, choosing the right option, fill in the gap and dictation. By doing this, it seeks to demonstrate the most complicated groups of consonant clusters for dyslexic students: the ones representing more than one sound in the same letter, thus opaque clusters. Furthermore, due to this opacity, English activities were more significant in terms of results than Catalan exercises.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100045"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144098890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A pragmatic view on referential acts in aphasia 失语症中指称行为的语用分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100050

Roberto Graci, Alessandro Capone

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