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Syntax and Theory of Mind in Autism Spectrum Disorders |
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| Denomination | Maîtrise universitaire en logopédie | |
| Defense | Maîtrise : Univ. Genève, 2012 | |
| Abstract | Twenty 5 to 15-year-old children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) were assessed on their ability to understand complex syntactic structures and to attribute a false belief to a protagonist. Syntax tasks included relative clause and wh-question comprehension, as measured by participants’ correct designation of one of three characters. Complement clauses were measured with a truth-value judgment task requiring participants to assess the truth of a puppet’s utterance. These syntactic structures are situated in the highest layer of the syntactic tree (CP), and as such we expected ASD children to show difficulty in understanding them, because of a purported syntactic deficit stemming from prolonged truncation (Durrleman & Zufferey, 2009). Furthermore, we tested the hypothesis that ASD children’s syntax would follow the pattern predicted by a measure of syntactic complexity based on Relativized Minimality... | |
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| Research group | Psycholinguistique | |
| Citation (ISO format) | VALDES-LARIBI, Huarda. Syntax and Theory of Mind in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Université de Genève. Maîtrise, 2012. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:23411 |
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