Resolving ambiguity: A psycholinguistic approach to understanding prosody processing in high-functioning autism

Brain and Language

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 144-152

  Diehl, Joshua J ^a,b   Bennetto, Loisa ^a   Watson, Duane ^a,c   Gunlogson, Christine ^a   McDonough, Joyce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Comprehension; High functioning; Intonation; Language; Pragmatics; Prosody; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH DISORDERS; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 47649087162     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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