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Comprehension and processing of passives in Dutch- speaking children and adults with high-functioning autism

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Martini, Sophie Frédérique
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Most research on language in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has focussed on social and communicative impairments, whereas grammatical impairments are less explored. This study delves into the syntactical knowledge and processing of passives in children with highfunctioning autism (HFA) and aims to answer the research question “Do children and adults with HFA comprehend and process passive sentences differently from typically developing children and adults?” Four groups, comprising children with HFA (N=2; age 8.52-8.75), TD children (N=13; age 6.78-11.07), adults with HFA (N=3, age 23.23-25.92), and TD adults (N=6; age 22.63-29.65) were tested on their processing of passives through reading of a sentence (recorded by an eye-tracker) and comprehension (picture-selection) of long actional passives. Results suggest that children and adults with HFA have a good comprehension of long actional passive sentences, as they perform at ceiling level. The TD adults answered 100% correctly too, and the TD children selected 90.4% of the correct pictures. The eyetracking results are insufficient to comment on the processing of passive sentences, because the collection of eye-tracking data was unsuccessful. The comprehension results are discussed in comparison to three recent studies on passives in Farsi-, Greek-, and English-speaking children (Heshmati, 2013; Terzi et al. 2014; Perovic, unpublished manuscript). Options for the analysis of complete eye-tracking data and suggestions for further research are discussed. KEY TERMS: high-functioning autism; passives; eye-tracking
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Thesis

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