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Malkin, Louise; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Autistic children have difficulties in adapting their language for particular listeners and contexts. We asked whether these difficulties are more prominent when children are required to be cognitively flexible, when changing how they have previously referred to a particular object. We compared autistic (N = 30) with neuro-typical 5- to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Cognitive Processes
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Helo, Andrea; Guerra, Ernesto; Coloma, Carmen Julia; Reyes, María Antonia; Rämä, Pia – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Visually situated spoken words activate phonological, visual, and semantic representations guiding overt attention during visual exploration. We compared the activation of these representations in children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) across four eye-tracking experiments, with a particular focus on visual (shape)…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Word Recognition, Semantics, Phonology
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Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Imai, Mutsumi; Durrant, Samantha; Nurmsoo, Erika – First Language, 2017
In controlled contexts, young children find it more difficult to learn novel words for actions than words for objects: Imai et al. found that English-speaking three-year-olds mistakenly choose a novel object as a referent for a novel verb about 42% of the time despite hearing the verb in a transitive sentence. The current two studies investigated…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Native Language, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
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Cleland, Joanne; Timmins, Claire; Wood, Sara E.; Hardcastle, William J.; Wishart, Jennifer G. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Articulation disorders in Down's syndrome (DS) are prevalent and often intractable. Individuals with DS generally prefer visual to auditory methods of learning and may therefore find it beneficial to be given a visual model during speech intervention, such as that provided by electropalatography (EPG). In this study, participants with Down's…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Intervention, Articulation Impairments, Phonology