Alice from the Tales of L. Carroll as a Character and Linguistic Personality by Elena Nikolaevna Ryadchikova, Olga Aleksandrovna Kadilina, Ashhen Muradovna Balian

“…Carroll qualities of a seven-year-old English girl are as follows: high level of cognitive-speech development, speech-cognitive processes, vocabulary, ability to communicate, reflect, draw conclusions, evaluate and express one's opinion in words, intelligence superior to the development of an average child of this age, as well as Alice’s internal qualities, manifested in her speech activity, taking into account not only speech peculiarities, but also themes and stylistics, communicational strategies and tactics, pragmatics, perception adequacy and the interlocutor’s speech understanding, influencing the opponent with the paralinguistic methods, psycho-emotional background of communication. …”
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Balanced bilingualism and early age of second language acquisition as the underlying mechanisms of a bilingual executive control advantage: Why variations in bilingual experiences... by W. Quin eYow, Xiaoqian eLi

“…Seventy-two 18- to 25-year-old English-Mandarin bilinguals performed four computerized executive function tasks (Stroop, Eriksen flanker, number-letter switching and n-back task) that measure the executive function components: inhibition, mental-set shifting, and information updating and monitoring. …”
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Vocalic Ratio as One of the Most Important Criteria of Phonetic Classification of World Languages by N. K. Genidze

“…The author conducts a comparative analysis of phonological systems and phonetic analysis of text fragments in several languages of different families and different historical periods: Gothic, old English, old Icelandic, English, Danish, French, and Finnish. …”
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“When That Wounds Are Evil Healed”: Revisiting Pleonastic That in Early English Medical Writing by Martín Javier Calle

“…The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English, where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + a demonstrative pronoun (i.e., for py pat, for pæm pe) or a subordinator (i.e., op pat). …”
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FUNDAMENTOS EMPÍRICOS Y METODOLÓGICOS DE UNA BASE DE DATOS LÉXICA DE LA MORFOLOGÍA DERIVATIVA DEL INGLÉS ANTIGUO by Roberto Torre Alonso, Javier Martín Arista, Laura Caballero González, Elisa González Torres, Ana Ibáñez Moreno

“…&lt;/p&gt;<br>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"&gt;This article lays the empirical and methodological basis for the development of a lexical database that analyses the derivative morphology of Old English. After revising the state of the art; the working hypotheses are established and the descriptive principles for the analysis of tranparent as well as opaque derivation are established. …”
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Parenting Needs of Urban, African American Fathers by Tyler K. Smith MD, MPH, S. Darius Tandon PhD, Megan H. Bair-Merritt MD, MSCE, Janice L. Hanson PhD

“…Study eligibility included being more than18 years old, English speaking, and having at least one child 0 to 5 years old. …”
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The Narrative Abilities of an English-Spanish Bilingual with Prader-Willi Syndrome by Estela García-Alcaraz

“…The aim of this study was to analyze the narrative abilities of a 33-year-old English-Spanish bilingual with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). …”
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A study of metonymical and metaphorical shift of meaning In selected examples by Ali Ghan

“…Silly used to mean 'happy' in old English. By the middle English period it shifted to mean ''naïve'', and only in modern English does it mean 'foolish'.                                         …”
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FUNCTIONAL NAMES IN “BEOWULF”: AN ANALYSIS by Mihaela BUZEC

“…The present paper analyzes the names of the Old English poem Beowulf as functional names, used to contrast or highlight themes of the poem, as well as characteristics of Beowulf. …”
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The linguocultural semantics of the anthroponyms and toponyms in G. Martin’s novel A Game of Thrones and the peculiarities of their translation into Ukrainain by Марія Павлівна Бобро, Людмила Романівна Присяжнюк

“…It is established that in the analysed novel, the characters’ names contain information about the status and place of living of their owners: the names of those who live in the North are based on old English, Scottish and Welsh names, the wildings get Scandinavian ones, those who live in the South get variants of Roman, Greek and Arabic names. …”
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Review of L'interprétation des noms grecs et latins d'animaux illustrée par le cas du zoonyme seps-sēps by Ritvo, Harriet

“…A single word can shift its boundaries over time, becoming either more or less inclusive: thus the Old English “deor” referred to animals in general (like its cognate “das Tier” in modern German), but in the course of the medieval period it became restricted to members of the family Cervidae. …”
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The journey of young souls in early medieval England (c. 850 - c. 1050) by Flowers, JE

“…Yet, the living soul appears prominently in Latin and Old English prose and verse demonstrating the extent to which beliefs about the whole of the soul’s life journey were still evolving. …”

ChatGPT versus human essayists: an exploration of the impact of artificial intelligence for authorship and academic integrity in the humanities by Revell, T, Yeadon, W, Cahilly-Bretzin, G, Clarke, I, Manning, G, Jones, J, Mulley, C, Pascual, RJ, Bradley, N, Thomas, D, Leneghan, F

“…This study examines AI’s ability to write essays analysing Old English poetry; human markers assessed and attempted to distinguish them from authentic analyses of poetry by first-year undergraduate students in English at the University of Oxford. …”

Saint Helen: On the Problem of British Origin by Maria Evgenyevna Loshkareva, Pavel Aleksandrovich Ryazanov

“…Nevertheless, Aldhelm’s treatise Prosa de virginitate and the Old English translation of Bede from the eleventh century first mention her son Constantine the Great’s birth in Britain. …”
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From the million dollar's web, to ‘seriespepito’ Is it a Bubble 2.0? by Francisco José García-Ull

“…In 2005, a 21 years old English student created The Million Dollar Homepage. …”
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Changes in the Consonant System of English from a Diachronic Linguosynergetic perspective by Т. І. Домброван

“…The subject of the investigation is the nature and essence of the changes in the system of the English consonants of Old and Middle English periods of its development. The Old English system of consonants is known to have included such consonants and approximants: • voiced stops [b], [d], [g], [g’]; • voiceless stops [p], [t], [k], [k’]; • fricatives [f-v], [θ-∂], [s-z], [χ-χ’], [h]; • lateral [l], [r]; • nasal [m], [n]; • geminate (long consonants) [pp], [bb], [tt], [dd], [gg], [g’g’], [kk], [k’k’], [ff], [θθ], [ss], [χχ], [χ’χ’], [ll], [rr], [mm], [nn]; • approximants [w], [j]. …”
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Variation in activity levels amongst dogs of different breeds: results of a large online survey of dog owners from the UK by Emily Pickup, Alexander J. German, Emily Blackwell, Mark Evans, Carri Westgarth

“…Afghan hounds were the least exercised breed, whilst breeds reportedly exercised most included: English setter, foxhound, Irish setter and Old English sheepdog. Gundogs were most likely to be walked once per d or more (P < 0·001), whilst smaller dogs were more likely to meet their UK Kennel Club guidelines for dog walking (P < 0·001). …”
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Ostomy Belt Use Improves Quality of Life in Patients with a Stoma by Elisa K. Karhu, Alexandra E. Hernandez, Ana M. Restrepo, Vanessa W. Hui

“…This study aimed to evaluate whether the use of an ostomy belt could improve quality of life measures in stoma patients through a prospective interventional open-label study of 17–80-year-old English- and Spanish-speaking patients with stomas who were using an ostomy belt for 8 weeks. …”
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新加坡5岁至6岁英汉双语儿童 汉语用工具手部动作动词的应用特征 = A study on the application of Chinese hand action verbs with tools by English-Chinese bilingual children aged 5-6 in Singapore... by 苏嘉盈 Soh, Veronica Jia Ying

“…The overall findings showed that most Singaporean 5 and 6 year old English-Chinese bilingual children possess average and excellent language competence in linguistic output. …”
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A study on caesura in Persian prosody by Abbas Jahedjah

“…Abstract                                                                                           Caesura is a pause in a line of poetry that were used primarily in Greek poetry and moreover in the poetry of most indo- European languages: Latin, Sanskrit, Avestan, German and old English. Although in Persian prosody, Caesura has an important place critics have paid little attention to it and consequently, its relations with prosodic meter of Persian poetry remains unclear. …”
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