Answering contextually demanding questions: Pragmatic errors produced by children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 357-381

  Loukusa, Soile ^a   Leinonen, Eeva ^b   Jussila, Katja ^c   Mattila, Marja Leena ^c   Ryder, Nuala ^b   Ebeling, Hanna ^c   Moilanen, Irma ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

APTITUDE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547197320     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Adams C., Green J., Gilchrist A., and Cox A. Conversational behaviour of children with Asperger syndrome and conduct disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 43 (2002) 679-690
2. Anselmi D., Tomasello M., and Acunzo M. Young children's responses to neutral and specific contingent queries. Journal of Child Language 13 (1986) 135-144
3. Attwood T. Asperger's syndrome: A guide for parents and professionals (1998), Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London
4. Bara B.G., Bosco F.M., and Bucciarelli M. Developmental pragmatics in normal and abnormal children. Brain and Language 68 (1999) 507-528
5. Baron-Cohen S. Theory of mind and autism: A fifteen year review. In: Baron-Cohen S., Tager-Flusberg H., and Cohen D.J. (Eds). Understanding other minds-Perspectives from developmental cognitive neuroscience. 2nd ed. (2000), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK 3-20
6. Bezuidenhout A., and Sroda M.S. Children's use of contextual cues to resolve referential ambiguity: An application of Relevance theory. Pragmatics and Cognition 6 (1998) 265-299
7. Bishop D.V.M. Uncommon understanding (1997), Psychology Press, Hove, UK
8. Bishop D.V.M., and Adams C. Conversational characteristics of children with semantic-pragmatic disorder. II: What features lead to a judgement of inappropriacy?. British Journal of Disorders of Communication 24 (1989) 241-263
9. Blåfield, L., & Kuusinen, J. (1974). Suomalaisen ITPA:n psykometriset ominaisuudet. [Psychometric features of Finnish ITPA test]. Kasvatustieteiden tutkimuslaitoksen julkaisuja 241. Jyväskylä, Finland: Jyväskylän yliopisto.
10. Bogdashina O. Communication issues in autism and Asperger syndrome-Do we speak the same language? (2005), Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London
11. Bucciarelli M., Colle L., and Bara B.G. How children comprehend speech acts and communicative gestures. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 207-241
12. Cain K., Oakhill J.V., Barnes M., and Bryant P.E. Comprehension skill, inference making ability, and their relation to knowledge. Memory & Cognition 29 (2001) 850-859
13. Dennis M., Lazenby A.L., and Lockyer L. Inferential language in high-function children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 31 (2001) 47-54
14. Eales M.J. Pragmatic impairments in adults with childhood diagnoses of autism or developmental receptive language disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 23 (1993) 593-617
15. Ehlers S., Gillberg C., and Wing L. A screening questionnaire for Asperger syndrome and other high-functioning autism spectrum disorders in school age children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 29 (1999) 129-141
16. Fine J., Bartolucci G., Szatmari P., and Ginsberg G. Cohesive discourse in pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 24 (1994) 315-329
17. Frith U. Emanuel Miller lecture: Confusions and controversies about Asperger syndrome. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 45 (2004) 672-686
18. Happé F.G.E. Communicative competence and theory of mind in autism. A test of relevance theory. Cognition 48 (1993) 101-109
19. Howlin P. Outcome in high-functioning adults with autism with and without early language delays: Implication for the differentiation between autism and Asperger syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 33 (2003) 3-13
20. Hudson J.A., and Slackman E.A. Children's use of scripts in inferential text processing. Discourse Processes 13 (1990) 375-386
21. Jolliffe T., and Baron-Cohen S. The Strange Story Test: A replication with high-functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 29 (1999) 395-406
22. Jolliffe T., and Baron-Cohen S. A test of central coherence theory: Linguistic processing in high-functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome: Is local coherence impaired?. Cognition 71 (1999) 149-185
23. Jolliffe T., and Baron-Cohen S. Linguistic processing in high-functioning adults with autism or Asperger's syndrome. Is global coherence impaired?. Psychological Medicine 30 (2000) 1169-1187
24. Kaplan E.F., Goodglass H., and Weintraub S. The Boston naming test. 2nd ed. (1983), Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia
25. Karmiloff-Smith A. Some fundamental aspects of language development after age 5. In: Fletcher P., and Garman M. (Eds). Language acquisition-Studies in first language development. 2nd ed. (1986), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
26. Kirk S.A., McCarthy J.D., and Kirk W.S. Illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities (ITPA) (1968), University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL
27. Laine M., Koivuselkä-Sallinen P., Hänninen R., and Niemi J. Bostonin nimentätesti [The Boston Naming Test] (1997), Psykologien Kustannus Oy, Helsinki, Finland
28. Landa R. Social language use in Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism. In: Klin A., Volkmar F.R., and Sparrow S.S. (Eds). Asperger syndrome (2000), The Guilford Press, New York 125-155
29. Leinonen E., and Kerbel D. Relevance theory and pragmatic impairment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 34 (1999) 367-390
30. Leinonen E., Letts C., and Smith B.R. Children's pragmatic communication difficulties (2000), Whurr Publishers, London
31. Leinonen E., Ryder N., Ellis M., and Hammond C. The use of context in pragmatic comprehension by specifically language-impaired and control children. Linguistics 41-42 (2003) 407-423
32. Letts C., and Leinonen E. Comprehension of inferential meaning in language-impaired and language normal children. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 36 (2001) 307-328
33. Lloyd P., Camaioni L., and Ercolani P. Assessing referential communication skills in the primary school years: A comparative study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 13 (1995) 13-29
34. Lord C., Rutter M., DiLavore P.C., and Risi S. Autism diagnostic observation schedule (ADOS) (2000), Western Psychological Services, Los Angeles
35. Lord C., Rutter M., and LeCouteur A. Autism diagnostic interview-Revised. 3rd ed. (1995), Western Psychological Services, Los Angeles
36. Losh M., and Capps L. Narrative ability in high-functioning children with autism or Asperger syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 33 (2003) 239-251
37. Loukusa, S., Leinonen, E., Kuusikko, S., Jussila, K., Mattila, M.-L., & Ryder, N., et al. (In press). Context use in pragmatic language comprehension by children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
38. Loukusa S., Leinonen E., and Ryder N. The development of pragmatic comprehension in 3-9-year-old Finnish speaking children. Poster session presented at the conference of The Experimental Pragmatics: Exploring the cognitive basis of conversation. Cambridge, UK (2005)
39. Marinac J.V., and Ozanne A.E. Comprehension strategies: The bridge between literal and discourse understanding. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 15 (1999) 233-246
40. Mattila, M.-L., Kielinen, M., Jussila, K., Linna, S.-L., Bloigu, R., & Ebeling, H., et al. (In press). An epidemiological and diagnostic study of Asperger syndrome according to four sets of diagnostic criteria. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
41. Martin I., and McDonald S. An exploration of causes of non-literal language problems in individuals with Asperger syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 34 (2004) 311-328
42. Milosky L.M. Children listening: The role of world knowledge in language comprehension. In: Chapman R.S. (Ed). Processes in language acquisition and disorders (1992), Mosby-Year Book, St Louis
43. Noens I.L.J., and van Berckelaer-Onnes I.A. Captured by details: Sense-making, language and communication in autism. Journal of Communication Disorders 38 (2005) 123-141
44. Norbury C.F., and Bishop D.V.M. Inferential processing and story recall in children with communication problems: A comparison of specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and high-functioning autism. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 37 (2002) 227-251
45. O'Neill D.K. Two-year-old children's sensitivity to a parent's knowledge state when making request. Child Development 67 (1996) 659-677
46. Ozonoff S., and Miller J.N. An exploration of right-hemisphere contributions to the pragmatic impairments of autism. Brain and Language 52 (1996) 411-434
47. Perkins M.R. Pragmatic ability and disability as emergent phenomena. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 19 (2005) 367-377
48. Ramberg C., Ehlers S., Nydén A., Johansson M., and Gillberg C. Language and pragmatic functions in school-age children on the autism spectrum. European Journal of Disorders of Communication 31 (1996) 387-414
49. Ryder N., and Leinonen E. Use of context in question answering by 3-, 4- and 5-year-old children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 32 (2003) 397-415
50. Sahlén B., and Nettelbladt U. Context and comprehension: A neurolinguistic and interactional approach to the understanding of semantic-pragmatic disorder. European Journal of Disorders of Communication 28 (1993) 117-140
51. Shatz M., and McCloskey L. Answering appropriately: A developmental perspective on conversational knowledge. In: Kuczaj II S.A. (Ed). Discourse development-Progress in cognitive development research (1984), Springer-Verlag, New York 19-36
52. Sperber D., and Wilson D. Relevance: Communication and cognition. 2nd ed. (1995), Blackwell, Oxford, UK
53. Sperber D., and Wilson D. Pragmatics, modularity and mind-reading. Mind & Language 17 (2002) 3-23
54. Strohner H., and Nelson K.E. The young child's development of sentence comprehension: Influence of event probability, nonverbal context, syntactic form, and strategies. Child Development 45 (1974) 567-576
55. Surian L., Baron-Cohen S., and Van der Lely H. Are children with autism deaf to Gricean Maxims?. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 1 (1996) 55-71
56. Van der Henst J.-B., and Sperber D. Testing cognitive and communicative principle of relevance. In: Noveck I.A., and Sperber D. (Eds). Experimental pragmatics (2004), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK
57. Van der Henst J.-B., Sperber D., and Politzer G. When is a conclusion worth deriving? A relevance-based analysis of indeterminate relational problems. Thinking and Reasoning 8 (2002) 1-20
58. Wilson D. Metarepresentation in linguistic communication. In: Sperber D. (Ed). Metarepresentations: A multidisciplinary perspective (2000), OUP, Oxford, UK
59. Wilson D. New directions for research on pragmatics and modularity. Lingua 115 (2005) 1129-1146
60. World Health Organisation. International classification of mental and behavioural disorders (ICD-10). Diagnostic criteria for research (1993), WHO, Geneva
61. Ziatas K., Durkin K., and Pratt C. Differences in assertive speech acts produces by children with autism, Asperger syndrome, specific language impairment, and normal development. Development and Psychopathology 15 (2003) 73-94