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Ge, Haoyan; Liu, Fang; Yuen, Hoi Kwan; Chen, Aishu; Yip, Virginia – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study investigated the comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus by 5- to 8-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children listened to question-answer dialogues while looking at pictures depicting the scenarios, and judged whether the answers were correct responses to the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Sino Tibetan Languages, Suprasegmentals
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Zhou, Peng; Crain, Stephen; Gao, Liqun; Jia, Meixiang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
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…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Cues