BACKGROUND The extraordinarily high incidence of grammatical language impairments in developmental disorders suggests that this uniquely human cognitive function is "fragile". Yet our understanding of the neurobiology of grammatical impairments is limited. Furthermore, there is no "gold-standard" to identify grammatical impairments and routine screening is not undertaken. An accurate screening ...

Abstract Contraction of want to wanna is sometimes possible (e.g., Who do you to/wanna stay with ___ ? ), but impossible to/*wanna stay? ). This contrast attributable the grammatical constraint that a wh -trace blocks contraction and . Most first language (L1) second (L2) acquisition studies testing learner knowledge this have used elicited production tasks focused on adult participants, incons...

Amid the proliferation of online news portals, there is a felt need for reinvestigation millennial students’ metalinguistic knowledge (MK) on technicality headlines. Couched within Relevance Theory, including interlarding theories Communicative Competence and Monitor Hypothesis, this study investigated 80 technical selected 35 headlines vis-à-vis academic disciplines exposure to headlines/news ...