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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017

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

Peng Zhou, Stephen Crain, Liqun Gao, Meixiang Jia

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Peng ZhouDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. zhoupeng1892@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Stephen CrainMacquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
Liqun GaoBeijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 100083, China.
Meixiang JiaPeking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing, 100083, China.

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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.

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Child LanguageComprehensionCuesAutistic DisorderCase-Control StudiesChildChild, PreschoolExecutive FunctionFemaleHumansLanguage TestsLinguisticsMaleAutismChild languageExecutive functionLinguistic cuesSentence comprehensionWord order

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