Children with Autism Understand Indirect Speech Acts: Evidence from a Semi-Structured Act-Out Task
| Autor: | Kissine, Mikhail, Cano-Chevrel, Julie, Carlier, Sophie, De Brabanter, Philippe, Ducenne, Leslie, Pairon, Marie-Charlotte, Soncarrieu, Marie-Vinciane, Deconinck, Nicolas, Delvenne, Véronique, Leybaert, Jacqueline |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Speech perception Autistic Disorder -- psychology lcsh:Medicine Indirect speech Theory of mind medicine Humans Speech Autistic Disorder lcsh:Science Child Language Multidisciplinary Communication lcsh:R Psychologie expérimentale Sciences bio-médicales et agricoles Pragmatique medicine.disease Syntax Comprehension Autism spectrum disorder Case-Control Studies Child Preschool Speech Perception Autism lcsh:Q Female Psychology Psychologie cognitive Sciences cognitives Sentence Research Article Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of autism and developmental disorders PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 11, p e0142191 (2015) PloS one, 10 (11 |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0142191 |
| Popis: | Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder are often said to present a global pragmatic impairment. However, there is some observational evidence that context-based comprehension of indirect requests may be preserved in autism. In order to provide experimental confirmation to this hypothesis, indirect speech act comprehension was tested in a group of 15 children with autism between 7 and 12 years and a group of 20 typically developing children between 2:7 and 3:6 years. The aim of the study was to determine whether children with autism can display genuinely contextual understanding of indirect requests. The experiment consisted of a three-pronged semi-structured task involving Mr Potato Head. In the first phase a declarative sentence was uttered by one adult as an instruction to put a garment on a Mr Potato Head toy; in the second the same sentence was uttered as a comment on a picture by another speaker; in the third phase the same sentence was uttered as a comment on a picture by the first speaker. Children with autism complied with the indirect request in the first phase and demonstrated the capacity to inhibit the directive interpretation in phases 2 and 3. TD children had some difficulty in understanding the indirect instruction in phase 1. These results call for a more nuanced view of pragmatic dysfunction in autism. info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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