The Use of Linguistic Cues in Sentence Comprehension by Mandarin-Speaking Children with High-Functioning Autism

Autor/inn/en	Zhou, Peng; Crain, Stephen; Gao, Liqun; Jia, Meixiang
Titel	The Use of Linguistic Cues in Sentence Comprehension by Mandarin-Speaking Children with High-Functioning Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47 (2017) 1, S.17-32 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-016-2912-4
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Children; Cues; Sentences; Comprehension; Language Usage; Word Order; Morphology (Languages); Syntax; Comparative Analysis; Mandarin Chinese + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Stichwort; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Verstehen; Verständnis; Sprachgebrauch; Wortfolge; Morphology; Morphologie
Abstract	Two studies were conducted to investigate how high-functioning children with autism use different linguistic cues in sentence comprehension. Two types of linguistic cues were investigated: word order and morphosyntactic cues. The results show that children with autism can use both types of cues in sentence comprehension. However, compared to age-matched typically developing peers, children with autism relied significantly more on word order cues and exhibited significantly more difficulties in interpreting sentences in which there was a conflict between the morphosyntactic cue and the word order cue. We attribute the difficulties exhibited by children with autism to their deficits in executive function. We then discuss the implications of the findings for understanding the nature of the sentence processing mechanism in autism. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01