Unit:
Κατεύθυνση ΓλωσσολογίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Alexandri Christina
Supervisors info:
Σπυριδούλα Βαρλοκώστα, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή
Βασίλειος Σπυρόπουλος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή
Σπυριδούλα Μπέλλα, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή
Original Title:
Η Επεξεργασία των Δομών Αναφορικής Δέσμευσης στη Διαταραχή Αυτιστικού Φάσματος: η Επίλυση της Αντωνυμικής Αμφισημίας
Translated title:
The Processing of Binding Structures in Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Ambiguity Resolution
Summary:
The present study investigates the mechanisms used from Greek-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for pronoun ambiguity resolution of subject null and overt pronouns. Ten children with high-functional autism and ten age-matched typically developing children participated in the study. We used an on-line picture verification task and we measured the preference the two groups showed for the three possible antecedents (subject, object, other), their decision-making time and their listening times. Our results showed that children with ASD use different mechanisms to resolve pronoun ambiguity and their preferences were the complete opposite of their matched typically developing children. Also, the times measured by the task were slower for the children within the ASD group. Our findings support that pronoun ambiguity resolution is a more difficult process for children with ASD than for their TD peers and that the ASD group chooses the antecedent that requires the least processing effort.
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
autism spectrum disorder, ambiguity resolution, language processing, landuage disorders
Number of index pages:
00
Number of references:
150
