Arabic Validation of the Pragmatic Language Skills Inventory to Assess Pragmatic Language Development in Preschoolers with and without Pragmatic Language Impairment [PDF]
Children, 2022 Objective: An individual’s articulation of pragmatic language development (PLD) signifies successful social interaction with others. Therefore, it is important to detect early pragmatic language impairment (PLI), whether as a primary disorder or as a ...
Ahmed Alduais +4 more
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A multi-method phenotypic study of sex differences in pragmatic language in autism [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized in part by differences in pragmatic (i.e., social) language use. However, few studies on pragmatic language have included a meaningful number of autistic females, and even fewer have evaluated ...
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A longitudinal investigation of pragmatic language across contexts in autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 BackgroundPragmatic language, or the use of language in social contexts, is a critical skill in daily life, supporting social interactions and the development of meaningful social relationships.
Gary E. Martin +9 more
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Approaches towards pragmatic language assessment in Indian pre-schoolers: A survey among speech-language pathologists [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000ResearchBackground Pragmatic language assessment in children is performed in line with standard protocols, guidelines, and best practices. The absence of these aspects in the Indian context has resulted in the quest to explore the approaches used by speech ...
Aiswarya Varghese +4 more
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The Pragmatics of Pragmatic Language and the Curse of Ambiguity: An fMRI Study
Neuroscience, 2019 In pragmatic language, there is an intentional distinction between the literal meaning of what is said, and what the speaker actually means. Previous neuroimaging investigations of pragmatic language have contrasted it with literal language; however, such contrasts may have been confounded by the higher levels of ambiguity in pragmatic language.
Christophe De Bézenac +1 more
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A Dataset to Study Pragmatic Language and Its Underlying Cognitive Processes [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Jalil Rasgado-Toledo +6 more
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Autistic Traits, Pragmatic Difficulties, and Adaptive Outcomes in Williams Syndrome: A Systematic Narrative Review [PDF]
ChildrenBackground and Objectives: Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare neurodevelopmental genetic condition traditionally described as being associated with a highly sociable behavioral profile.
Dimitra V. Katsarou, Eleni E. Kyvrakidou
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Investigation of L2/Ln Pragmatic Competence: Its Core and Route Map
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 How to use language properly and acquire the capacity for language use has become the focus of linguists and philosophers for centuries. Therefore, pragmatic competence underlying language use arouses enormous interests of language acquisition ...
Tiaoyuan Mao
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Difficulties with pragmatic language (i.e., language in social contexts, such as conversational ability) are a noted characteristic of the language profiles of both fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), conditions which show ...
Lauren Bush +4 more
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The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2021 Background Pragmatics is the social use of language that draws on understanding human interactions in specific contexts and requires engagement with a communicative partner or partners. The hearing-impaired children are known to have a pragmatic language
Mona Sameeh Khodeir +2 more
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