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Gold, Rinat; Faust, Miriam; Goldstein, Abraham – Brain and Language, 2010
Previous research indicates severe disabilities in processing figurative language in people diagnosed on the autism spectrum disorders. However, this aspect of language comprehension in Asperger syndrome (AS) specifically has rarely been the subject of formal study. The present study aimed to examine the possibility that in addition to their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger Syndrome
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Diehl, Joshua J.; Bennetto, Loisa; Watson, Duane; Gunlogson, Christine; McDonough, Joyce – Brain and Language, 2008
Individuals with autism exhibit significant impairments in prosody production, yet there is a paucity of research on prosody comprehension in this population. The current study adapted a psycholinguistic paradigm to examine whether individuals with autism are able to use prosody to resolve syntactically ambiguous sentences. Participants were 21…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age, Psycholinguistics, Syntax