This picture-description language lateralization index was compared to language lateralization by a phonetic word generation task (PWGT) in adults revealing good intermethod validity (r = 0.70; P ≤ 0.05).
Writing, at an estimated 5,000 years old, is itself is a mere babe compared to language, which traces back at least 80,000 years.
In contrast, language restricted meta-analyses, compared to language inclusive meta-analyses did not differ in their effect size estimates (ROR 50.98; 95 % CI: 0.81 1.17) [ 19].
Intragroup cluster and discriminant analysis revealed that CANTAB, as compared to language tests, was able to detect subtle but significant differences between the subjects.
Based on these findings, we concluded that, as compared to language tests, large-scale application of automated visuospatial tests to assess learning and memory might increase our ability to discern the limits between normal and pathological aging.
A US trial on interpreters at a paediatric emergency room (ER) [ 26] adjusting for disease severity showed significantly higher rates in the use of diagnostics, IV fluids, in hospitalisations as well as higher costs in language-incongruent compared to language-congruent encounters.
A Finnish register-based study of life-long physical activity and cancer risk among female teachers indicated that teachers of physical education had a non-significant 2-fold higher standardized incidence ratio of melanoma compared to language teachers during the follow-up period 1967-91 [ 15].
However, because of the different morphological construction of words in these languages compared to Latinate languages, the important consideration for word recognition in Arabic (and other Semitic languages) is the efficient identification of a word's morphological root [31], [32], [46], [48], [50] [52], [83], [84].
Speech recognition still performs poorly in inflectional languages compared to mainstream languages like English.
This fact should bring home not just the singularity of the classical Chinese written language, compared to contemporary languages derived from the proto-Sanskrit Indo-European family of languages written in alphabet scripts, but remind us as well of the greater distance between Chinese and other cultures from past to present.
