[article] 
inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 47-1 (January 2017) . - p.17-32

Titre :	The Use of Linguistic Cues in Sentence Comprehension by Mandarin-Speaking Children with High-Functioning Autism
Type de document :	Texte imprimé et/ou numérique
Auteurs :	Peng ZHOU, Auteur ; Stephen CRAIN, Auteur ; Liqun GAO, Auteur ; Meixiang JIA, Auteur
Article en page(s) :	p.17-32
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	Autism  Sentence comprehension  Linguistic cues  Word order  Executive function  Child language
Index. décimale :	PER Périodiques
Résumé :	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.
En ligne :	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2912-4
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[article] The Use of Linguistic Cues in Sentence Comprehension by Mandarin-Speaking Children with High-Functioning Autism [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Peng ZHOU, Auteur ; Stephen CRAIN, Auteur ; Liqun GAO, Auteur ; Meixiang JIA, Auteur . - p.17-32.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 47-1 (January 2017) . - p.17-32

Mots-clés :	Autism  Sentence comprehension  Linguistic cues  Word order  Executive function  Child language
Index. décimale :	PER Périodiques
Résumé :	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.
En ligne :	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2912-4
Permalink :	https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=298