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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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Wallentin, Mikkel – Brain and Language, 2009
This review brings together evidence from a diverse field of methods for investigating sex differences in language processing. Differences are found in certain language-related deficits, such as stuttering, dyslexia, autism and schizophrenia. Common to these is that language problems may follow from, rather than cause the deficit. Large studies…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Verbal Ability, Language Processing, Gender Differences
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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