TY - JOUR
T1 - The use of causal language and filled pauses in children with and without autism
AU - Hallin, Anna Eva
AU - Garcia, Gabrielle D.
AU - Reuterskiöld, Christina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Anna Eva Hallin et al.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This study investigated the relationship between pragmatic ability and two aspects of structural language in conversational language samples from 24 school-age children with and without high-functioning autism (HFA): causal statements and speech disruptions. In contrast to a majority of previous studies, grammatical complexity and mean length of utterance were factored into the analyses, since these are potential confounding variables. The results showed that children with HFA used fewer spontaneous causal statements and fewer filled pauses in conversation compared to children with typical development (TD). There was also a significant and positive relationship between filled pauses and pragmatic ability after controlling for structural language ability. The resultsmay help us understand the conversational patterns of children with HFA better.
AB - This study investigated the relationship between pragmatic ability and two aspects of structural language in conversational language samples from 24 school-age children with and without high-functioning autism (HFA): causal statements and speech disruptions. In contrast to a majority of previous studies, grammatical complexity and mean length of utterance were factored into the analyses, since these are potential confounding variables. The results showed that children with HFA used fewer spontaneous causal statements and fewer filled pauses in conversation compared to children with typical development (TD). There was also a significant and positive relationship between filled pauses and pragmatic ability after controlling for structural language ability. The resultsmay help us understand the conversational patterns of children with HFA better.
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U2 - 10.1155/2016/8535868
DO - 10.1155/2016/8535868
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85015827898
SN - 2090-3987
VL - 2016
JO - Child Development Research
JF - Child Development Research
M1 - 8535868
ER -