Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. Two experiments investigated this assumption. Participants silently read relative clauses in which two pairs of words either did or did not have a high degree of phonological overlap. Participants were ...

the prevalence of asthma remains difficult to determine with precision with no absolute or gold standard for diagnosis. international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (isaac) developed video questionnaire for epidemiological studies with less reliance on understanding written asthma questionnaire. the aim of this research was to determine the agreement between the isaac written and vi...

BACKGROUND When promoting active travel to school, it is important to consider school and district policies as well as attitudes of school and district administrators. METHODS School principals and district officials in South Carolina participated in the School Travel Survey. Frequency distributions and Chi-squared tests were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Three hundred fourteen persons ...

This study compared results from Internet and written questionnaires about respiratory symptoms in order to find out if both forms of the survey yielded the same answers. One thousand seventy-one students, ages 13 to 17, were asked to complete either an Internet or a written questionnaire. The demographic characteristics of the participants equalled those of the general Dutch adolescent populat...

The prevalence of asthma remains difficult to determine with precision with no absolute or gold standard for diagnosis. International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) developed video questionnaire for epidemiological studies with less reliance on understanding written asthma questionnaire. The aim of this research was to determine the agreement between the ISAAC written and vi...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The prevalence of childhood asthma varies among different nations and appears to have increased in recent years. It has been difficult to determine this prevalence precisely and compare the communities due to the lack of a standardized method. The International Studies of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) has developed a written and video questionnaire to measure asth...

Literacy cannot be separated from peoples' sociocultural contexts and from their self-conceptualizations within those contexts. A person's literacy functioning will depend upon the role literacy plays in meeting one's goals and in the resulting construction of one's self-image. Within context, not only written language, but the interaction between written and oral language modes becomes importa...

BACKGROUND Folk names of plants are the root of traditional plant biodiversity knowledge. In pace with social change and economic development, Mongolian knowledge concerning plant diversity is gradually vanishing. Collection and analysis of Mongolian folk names of plants is extremely important. During 2008 to 2012, the authors have been to the Arhorchin National Nature Reserve area 5 times. Fie...

Recently work on the grammar of spoken English has advanced through the use of large, general, and varied corpora of the language, including corpora of spoken discourse. Here I review the research that has been emerging from the availability of such corpora, much of it emphasizing the need for new ways of conceptualizing spoken grammar, to replace the traditional reliance on grammatical models ...