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

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• 作者：Peng Zhou ; Stephen Crain ; Liqun Gao&#8230
• 关键词：Autism ; Sentence comprehension ; Linguistic cues ; Word order ; Executive function ; Child language
• 刊名：Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：47
• 期：1
• 页码：17-32
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Child and School Psychology; Pediatrics; Neurosciences; Public Health;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3432
• 卷排序：47

文摘

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.