TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental states and activities in Danish narratives: children with autism and children with language impairment
AU - Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth
AU - Christensen, Rikke Vang
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This study focuses on the relationship between content elements and mental-state language in narratives from twenty-seven children with autism (ASD), twelve children with language impairment (LI), and thirty typically developing children (TD). The groups did not differ on chronological age (;–;) and non-verbal cognitive skills, and the groups with ASD and TD did not differ on language measures. The children with ASD and LI had fewer content elements of the storyline than the TD children. Compared with the TD children, the children with ASD used fewer subordinate clauses about the characters’ thoughts, and preferred talking about mental states as reported speech, especially in the form of direct speech. The children with LI did not differ from the TD children on these measures. The results are discussed in the context of difficulties with socio-cognition in children with ASD and of language difficulties in children with LI.
AB - This study focuses on the relationship between content elements and mental-state language in narratives from twenty-seven children with autism (ASD), twelve children with language impairment (LI), and thirty typically developing children (TD). The groups did not differ on chronological age (;–;) and non-verbal cognitive skills, and the groups with ASD and TD did not differ on language measures. The children with ASD and LI had fewer content elements of the storyline than the TD children. Compared with the TD children, the children with ASD used fewer subordinate clauses about the characters’ thoughts, and preferred talking about mental states as reported speech, especially in the form of direct speech. The children with LI did not differ from the TD children on these measures. The results are discussed in the context of difficulties with socio-cognition in children with ASD and of language difficulties in children with LI.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - linguistics
KW - autism
KW - narrative
KW - mental states
KW - language impairment
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0CA3C5FE0E32D04E37DA33B7226A524C/S0305000916000507a.pdf/div-class-title-mental-states-and-activities-in-danish-narratives-children-with-autism-and-children-with-language-impairment-a-href-cor1-ref-type-corresp-a-div.pdf
U2 - 10.1017/S0305000916000507
DO - 10.1017/S0305000916000507
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27804897
VL - 44
SP - 1192
EP - 1217
JO - Journal of Child Language
JF - Journal of Child Language
SN - 0305-0009
ER -