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Two times three little pigs: dysfluency, cognitive complexity and autism
Stirling, Lesley, Barrington, Graham and Douglas, Susan (2007-01-01). Two times three little pigs: dysfluency, cognitive complexity and autism. In: Mushin, Ilana and Laughren, Mary Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society, Brisbane, Australia, (). 7-9 July 2006.
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| Author(s) |
Stirling, Lesley
Barrington, Graham
Douglas, Susan
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| Title of paper |
Two times three little pigs: dysfluency, cognitive complexity and autism
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| Conference name |
Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
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Brisbane, Australia
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| Conference dates |
7-9 July 2006
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| Editor(s) |
Mushin, Ilana
Laughren, Mary
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| Publication date |
2007-01-01
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| Abstract/Summary |
This paper presents an analysis of dysfluencies in two oral tellings of a familiar children's story by a young boy with autism. Thurber & Tager-Flusberg (1993) postulate a lower
degree of cognitive and communicative investment to explain a lower frequency of non-grammatical pauses observed in elicited narratives of children with autism in comparison to typically developing
and intellectually disabled controls. we also found a very low frequency of non-grammatical pauses in our data, but indications of high engagement and cognitive and communicative investment. We
point to a wider range of disfluencies as indicators of cognitive load, and show that the kind and location of dysfluencies produced may reveal which aspects of the narrative task are creating the
greatest cognitive demand: here, mental state ascription, perspectivization, and adherence to story schema. This paper thus generates analytical options and hypotheses that can be explored further
in a larger population of children with autism and typically developing controls.
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380201 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
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| Keyword(s) |
autism
narrative
discourse analysis
cognitive science
dysfluency
repairs
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