Reference production in young speakers with and without autism: Effects of discourse status and processing constraints

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-146

  Arnold, Jennifer E ^a   Bennetto, Loisa ^b   Diehl, Joshua J ^b,c,d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Development; Language production; Pronouns; Reference; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; NARRATIVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 58249126432     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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