Production and comprehension of French wh-questions by children with autism spectrum disorder: A comparative study with specific language impairment
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PHILIPPE PRÉVOST [1] ; LAURICE TULLER [1] ; MARIE ANNE BARTHEZ [2] ; JOËLLE MALVY [1] ; FRÉDÉRIQUE BONNET-BRILHAULT [1]
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[1] Université François Rabelais de Tours
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[2] Tours Regional University Hospital Center
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- Localización: Applied psycholinguistics, ISSN 0142-7164, Vol. 38, Nº 5, 2017, págs. 1095-1131
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The nature of structural language difficulties in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was explored in a comparative study with specific language impairment (SLI) through investigation of the frequently reported ASD weakness in receptive skills relative to expressive skills. Twenty French-speaking children with ASD aged 6 to 12 were compared to age-matched children with SLI on production and comprehension of wh-questions. The two groups displayed similar effects of the complexity of the different wh-strategies. In the ASD group (as in the SLI group), these effects were not greater in comprehension compared to production; moreover, nonverbal ability (which varied from normal to impaired) was not related to language performance. Observed ASD-SLI differences are argued to largely be due to ASD pragmatic deficits, rather than to a qualitative difference in structural language skills.
