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Conversational Topic Shifts and Topic Maintenance in Autistic and Neurotypical Children

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Topic maintenance and topic shifts are crucial components of conversation; however, existing research lacks a clear quantitative operationalization of these topic management skills. Previous studies suggest that autistic children are less likely than their neurotypical peers to maintain and elaborate on the interlocutor's prior topic, and that
Zuriñe Ábalos, Mikhail Kissine, Agustín Vicente, Elena Castroviejo   +3 more
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The Assertive Illocutionary Act of Khatib' Islam Preacher’ in Friday Sermons in Baiturohim Mosque of Surakarta

Journal of Pragmatics Research
This research reports on an assertive illocutionary act performed by khatib ‘Islam preacher’ in Friday sermons in Baiturohim Mosque of Surakarta. This qualitative research aims to elucidate utterance's form, function, and meaning in the assertive ...
Sri Kuncoro DibyoSarjono Maskuri Maksum
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Receptive–Expressive Language Phenotypes in Infants and Toddlers With Autism Features

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children diagnosed with autism often present with an atypical discrepancy between their receptive and expressive language levels, or an atypical receptive–expressive language phenotype. Children with an atypical receptive–expressive phenotype present with a relative receptive language advantage (expressive level < receptive level) or a ...
Torrey Cohenour, Amanda Gulsrud, Connie Kasari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vocabulary of Autistic Preschool Children With Limited Language: Alignment With Early Word Inventories

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a critical need to understand the early vocabulary of young children with autism who have limited language, defined in this study as producing fewer than 20 different spontaneous and functional spoken or augmented words, to better inform educational targets and vocabulary selection for spoken as well as augmentative and alternative ...
Eunji Kong, Yitong Jiang, Marina Crain, Wenjing Bao, Lynne Levato, Wendy Shih, Connie Kasari, Stephanie Shire   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

La cohérence textuelle et la grammaire de la phrase dans les productions écrites de doctorants

Lidil, 2017
The objective of this article is to build a bridge between sentence grammar and textual coherence within the writing process of doctoral students. It draws upon a study conducted with two groups: doctoral students in the humanities on the one hand and ...
Ève Lejot
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Centering, Anaphora Resolution, and Discourse Structure [PDF]

, 1997
Centering was formulated as a model of the relationship between attentional state, the form of referring expressions, and the coherence of an utterance within a discourse segment (Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein, 1986; Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein, 1995).
Walker, Marilyn A.
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Towards Structured Deep Neural Network for Automatic Speech Recognition

, 2015
In this paper we propose the Structured Deep Neural Network (Structured DNN) as a structured and deep learning algorithm, learning to find the best structured object (such as a label sequence) given a structured input (such as a vector sequence) by ...
Lee, Hung-Yi, Lee, Lin-shan, Liao, Yi-Hsiu   +2 more
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Interval Timing Is Altered in Male Nrxn1+/− Mice: A Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social interactions and communication, and increased repetitive and stereotypical behavior. Neuroimaging shows functional abnormalities in brain areas involved in temporal processing in autistic individuals, and they also show deficits in interval timing.
Kyle M. Roddick, Elias B. Habib, Richard E. Brown, Fuat Balcı   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formas de apropriação de concepções de Bakhtin/Volochinov por estudos acadêmicos europeus contemporâneos

Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2007
This study, developed at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul aims to investigate ways of appropriating some concepts produced by Bakhtin/Volochinov such as polyphony, ideology and meaning.
Ana Zandwais
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The E3 Ubiquitin Ligase UBE3B Regulates Synaptic Development and Cortical Network Activity

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired communication, abnormal social interactions, and restricted, repetitive behaviors. Pathogenic mutations in UBE3B result in neurodevelopmental disease, including intellectual disability, lack of speech, and ASD.
Shayal Vashisth, Aleya Shedd, Ariel Aiken, Solmi Cheon, Josh Bandopadhay, Kiran Kaur, Kimberly M. Huber, Maria H. Chahrour   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source