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Individual characteristics moderate listening effort in noisy classrooms by Visentin, Chiara, Pellegatti, Matteo, Garraffa, Maria, Di Domenico, Alberto, Prodi, Nicola

“…Comprehending the teacher’s message when other students are chatting is challenging. Even though the sound environment is the same for a whole class,…”
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Can readability formulae adapt to the changing demographics of the UK school-aged population? A study on reading materials for school-age bilingual readers by Sarin, Megha, Garraffa, Maria

“…Background Due to the increase bilingual population in the UK, it is imperative that reading materials are made accessible for them in and out of school. This…”
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Grammar as a Maturational Controlled Behavior: Minimality in Development and Impairment by Garraffa, Maria

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Editorial: Language acquisition in diverse linguistic, social and cognitive circumstances, volume II by Garraffa, Maria, Guasti, Maria Teresa, Marinis, Theodoros, Morgan, Gary

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Language and Cognition in Gaelic-English Young Adult Bilingual Speakers: A Positive Effect of School Immersion Program on Attentional and Grammatical Skills by Garraffa, Maria, Obregon, Mateo, O'Rourke, Bernadette, Sorace, Antonella

“…The present study investigates linguistics and cognitive effects of bilingualism with a minority language acquired through school medium education. If…”
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The comprehension and production of Wh- questions among Malay children with developmental language disorders: Climbing the syntactic tree by Abu Bakar, Norsofiah, Smith, Giuditta, Razak, Rogayah A., Garraffa, Maria

“…This study is an investigation of both comprehension and production of Wh- questions in Malay-speaking children with a developmental language disorder (DLD). A…”
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The effects of bilingualism on cognition and behaviour in individuals with attention deficits: A scoping review by Köder, Franziska, Sharma, Curtis, Cameron, Sarah, Garraffa, Maria

“…Weaknesses in executive function have persistently been found to be associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), while bilinguals have been…”
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Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism with Regional Minority Languages: A Study of Sardinian-Italian Adult Speakers by Garraffa, Maria, Obregon, Mateo, Sorace, Antonella

“…This study explores the effects of bilingualism in Sardinian as a regional minority language on the linguistic competence in Italian as the dominant language…”
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When acquisition and aphasia converge: the case of copula omission by Brunetto, Valentina, Kershaw, Charlotte, Garraffa, Maria

“…This paper reports evidence for a convergence between child language acquisition and Broca’s aphasia in the domain of copula omission. Our data shows that, in…”
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Grammar in Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review from the Last 10 Years by Smith, Giuditta, Janetti, Benedetta Bianchi, Sarin, Megha, Garraffa, Maria

“…Little is known of the trajectory of grammar in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) once adulthood and language maturity are reached. Yet, impairments in…”
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Language Competence in Italian Heritage Speakers: The Contribution of Clitic Pronouns and Nonword Repetition by Smith, Giuditta, Spelorzi, Roberta, Sorace, Antonella, Garraffa, Maria

“…The linguistic profile of bilingual children is known to show areas of overlap with that of children affected by Developmental Language Disorder (DLD),…”
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Tracking Biliteracy Skills in Students Attending Gaelic Medium Education: Effects of Learning Experience on Overall Reading Skills by Dickson, Euan, Manderson, Laura, Obregon, Mateo, Garraffa, Maria

“…This study describes the validation of a reading assessment developed for speakers of Scottish Gaelic, an endangered language spoken in Scotland. The test is…”
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Editorial: Language Acquisition in Diverse Linguistic, Social and Cognitive Circumstances by Garraffa, Maria, Guasti, Maria Teresa, Marinis, Theodoros, Morgan, Gary

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A discourse account of intervention phenomena: An investigation of interrogatives by Riches, Nick G., Garraffa, Maria

“…Sentences where like-moves-over-like, e.g. this is the cat that the dog was chasing <the cat>, have occupied language researchers over the past two decades…”
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Targeting Complex Orthography in the Treatment of a Bilingual Aphasia with Acquired Dysgraphia: The Case of a Malay/English Speaker with Conduction Aphasia by Aziz, Mohd Azmarul A, Razak, Rogayah A, Garraffa, Maria

“…Background: Disruption of spoken language in people with aphasia tends to interfere with the ability to write, which is referred to as dysgraphia. This study…”
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Impaired implicit learning of syntactic structure in children with developmental language disorder: Evidence from syntactic priming by Garraffa, Maria, Coco, Moreno I, Branigan, Holly P

“…Background and aims Implicit learning mechanisms associated with detecting structural regularities have been proposed to underlie both the long-term…”
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Linguistic theory and aphasia: an overview by Garraffa, Maria, Fyndanis, Valantis

“…Background: Aphasia research has been informed by linguistic theory to a great extent. Conversely, linguistic theory has also been informed by data from people…”
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First simple makes last complex. Construct-irrelevant variance effects in the test of grammatical comprehension TROG-2 by Garraffa, Maria, Megan, Esler

“…Reliability of a test increases with test length, with a bigger number of observations offering opportunities for finer insights on a phenomenon. However…”
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First Simple makes last complex: construct irrelevant variance effects in the test of grammatical comprehension by Esler, Megan, Garraffa, Maria

“…Abstract only…”
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'To be' or not 'to be': an analysis of copula production and omission in people with non-fluent aphasia by Smith, Giuditta, Kershaw, Charlotte, Brunetto, Valentina, Garraffa, Maria

“…Agrammatic aphasia has been widely associated with impairments with functional words and complex sentences. Speech errors of people with aphasia (PWA) have…”
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