Compared to typically developing children, children with autism (ASD) show delayed production of wh-questions. It is currently controversial the degree to which such deficits derive from social-pragmatic requirements and/or because these are complex grammatical structures. The current study employed the intermodal preferential looking (IPL) paradigm, which reduces social-pragmatic demands. The ...

Contra previous uniform approaches for wh-phrases, the current paper argues that there is a clear asymmetry between in-situ argument and adjunct wh-phrases with respect to Intervention Effects (IEs) in Korean and Japanese. Based on the categorical (nominal vs. adverbial) dichotomy evidenced by structural case attachment tests and formation of complex wh-expressions, different base locations for...

The present study investigated the pragmatic awareness and production of Iranian Turkish and Persian EFL learners in the speech act of apology. Sixty-eight learners of English studying at several universities in Iran were selected based on simple random sampling as the monolingual and bilingual participants. Data were elicited by means of a written discourse self-assessment/completion test (WDS...

Breeding standards of most dog breeds specify tolerable ranges of certain conformation traits. In the German shepherd dog (GSD), current means for withers height (WH) and BW are close to the upper breed limits. Therefore, strategies to avoid a further increase in size and to maximize the proportion of dogs fitting the breeding standard with respect to WH and BW should be compared. Body measurem...

Abstract This article describes the usage of partial interrogatives without wh such as And you went…? in French and Spanish, analyses variation between in-situ -Ø in-situ-wh -interrogatives went where? On basis an analysis -Ø-interrogatives a corpus spoken these are described particularly efficient means realizing information request. Due to fact that their use is bound contexts which request h...

BACKGROUND AND AIM There are a significant number of Turkish speaking immigrants living in London. Their special health issues including women's health, mental health, and alcohol and smoking habits has been assessed. The aim of this study was to explore the ongoing challenges in access to health care services and its impact on Quality of Life of immigrants. MATERIAL AND METHODS This cross-se...

Turkish is a highly inflected, agglutinative language in which subject NPs are never overtly casemarked, but object NPs often are. Although all six possible word orders are grammatical when objects are overtly casemarked, only SOV and OVS word orders are grammatical when objects lack overt casemarking. In imitation experiments, Batman-Ratyosyan and Stromswold (1999) found that 4and 5-year-old T...