Pragmatic Inferences in High-Functioning Adults with Autism and Asperger Syndrome
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Pragmatic inferences in high-functioning adults with autism and Asperger syndrome.
Although people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have severe problems with pragmatic aspects of language, little is known about their pragmatic reasoning. We carried out a behavioral study on high-functioning adults with autistic disorder (n = 11) and Asperger syndrome (n = 17) and matched controls (n = 28) to investigate whether they are capable of deriving scalar implicatures, which...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0162-3257,1573-3432
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-008-0661-8