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Moreno-Pérez, Francisco J.; Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Tavares, Gema; Saldaña, David – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: It has been established that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulties understanding spoken language. Understanding reflexive and clitic pronouns is vital to establishing reference-based inference, but it is as yet unclear whether such constructions pose specific difficulties for those with ASD. Pronoun…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Form Classes (Languages), Developmental Disabilities
Christy Marie Seidel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this body of work was to gain a clearer understanding of the potential cognitive factors that may contribute to Specific Language Impairment (SLI). This study attempted to simulate a performance profile of SLI in typically developing children within a grammaticality judgment task, featuring structures historically difficult (third…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Cognitive Processes, Child Development, Difficulty Level
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Srivastava, Pradyumn; Gray, Shelley – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: With the global expansion of technology, our reading platform has shifted from traditional text to hypertext, yet little consideration has been given to how this shift might help or hinder students' reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to compare reading comprehension of computer-based and paper-based texts in adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Language Impairments, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Johnson, Matt A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation will focus on the processing and learning of abstract, phrasal argument structure constructions. Chapter 1 provides the theoretical framework for abstract constructions, and illustrates the importance of such representations in speakers' linguistic knowledge. Chapter 2 reviews the evidence for meaning being associated with…
Descriptors: Autism, Prediction, Language Acquisition, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Loucas, Tom; Riches, Nick Greatorex; Charman, Tony; Pickles, Andrew; Simonoff, Emily; Chandler, Susie; Baird, Gillian – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: The cognitive bases of language impairment in specific language impairment (SLI) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were investigated in a novel non-word comparison task which manipulated phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and speech perception, both implicated in poor non-word repetition. Aims: This study aimed to investigate the…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reaction Time, Autism, Language Impairments
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Lum, Jarrad A. G.; Bavin, Edith L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: E. Bialystok and E. B. Ryan (1985) have outlined two operations, analysis and control, which are required for grammaticality judgments. In this model, analysis is involved in determining the grammaticality of a sentence, and control is required so that irrelevant information is ignored. This study examined these processes in specific…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Impairments, Grammar, Children