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Bosco, Francesca M.; Angeleri, Romina; Colle, Livia; Sacco, Katiuscia; Bara, Bruno G. – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Previous studies on children's pragmatic abilities have tended to focus on just one pragmatic phenomenon and one expressive means at a time, mainly concentrating on comprehension, and overlooking the production side. We assessed both comprehension and production in relation to several pragmatic phenomena (simple and complex standard…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Task Analysis
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Grossman, Ruth B.; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
We analyzed several studies of non-verbal communication (prosody and facial expressions) completed in our lab and conducted a secondary analysis to compare performance on receptive vs. expressive tasks by adolescents with ASD and their typically developing peers. Results show a significant between-group difference for the aggregate score of…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Adolescents
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Crawford, Nicole A.; Edelson, Lisa R.; Skwerer, Daniela Plesa; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
Language samples elicited through a picture description task were recorded from 38 adolescents and adults with Williams syndrome (WS) and one control group matched on age, and another matched on age, IQ, and vocabulary knowledge. The samples were coded for use of various types of inferences, dramatic devices, and verbal fillers; acoustic analyses…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Control Groups, Intonation, Adolescents