Research on filler-gap dependencies has revealed that there are constraints on possible gap sites, and that real-time sentence processing is sensitive to these constraints. This work has shown that comprehenders have preferences for potential gap sites, and immediately detect when these preferences are not met. However, neither the mechanisms that select preferred gap sites nor the mechanisms used to detect whether these preferences are met are well-understood. In this paper, we report on three experiments in Bangla, a language in which gaps may occur in either a pre-verbal embedded clause or a post-verbal embedded clause. This word order variation allows us to manipulate whether the first gap linearly available is contained in the same clause as the filler, which allows us to dissociate structural locality from linear locality. In Experiment 1, an untimed ambiguity resolution task, we found a global bias to resolve a filler-gap dependency with the first gap linearly available, regardless of structural hierarchy. In Experiments 2 and 3, which use the filled-gap paradigm, we found sensitivity to disruption only when the blocked gap site is both structurally and linearly local, i.e., the filler and the gap site are contained in the same clause. This suggests that comprehenders may not show sensitivity to the disruption of all preferred gap resolutions.

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Language is, through both utterance and understanding, an inevitable element of human existence. In addition to being substantially endangered, indigenous languages are also digitally endangered. The digital divide that causes this danger infringes most of the indigenous community's linguistic rights. This paper will illustrate, along with this detailed background, the extent to which the indigenous communities can develop academic partnerships by digitising educational content and using Social Media. From the observation and discussion with the community members, some feasible suggestions came up that demonstrated the academic partnership as a way language documentation and teaching in MTB-MLE. The aspects of indigenous language education and connection of social media based content making is another solution tool in present days in which this paper also narrates the possibility.