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Understanding actions, states, and events : verb learning in children with autism /

Debate regarding the ability of children with autism to acquire verbs is both limited and inconclusive. This book explores this understudied area of language development in autism to answer the question: How do children with autism learn the meaning of verbs? The approach presents a critical survey...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Douglas, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
Colección:Studies on language acquisition ; 45.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Motivation for the study; 1.1. Theories of word learning; 2. The study; 2.1. The children; 2.2. Communicative abilities of the children; 3. Outline of monograph; Chapter 2. What is autism?; 1. The emergence of autism as a syndrome; 2. Autism: The current perspective; 2.1. Autism and behaviour; 2.2. Autism and aetiology; 2.3. Autism and cognitive abilities; 2.4. Autism and language; 3. Diagnosis and assessment; 4. Conclusion; Chapter 3. Understanding actions, states and events: Verb learning in children in children with autism; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Preliminaries2.1. The study; 2.2. Semantic categories; 3. Semantic profiles by category; 3.1. Activity; 3.2. Change of state; 3.3. Stative; 3.4. Deictic; 3.5. Desire; 3.6. Emotion; 3.7. Perception; 3.8. Communication; 3.9. Mental state; 3.10. Causative; 3.11. Abstract; 3.12. Modal auxiliaries; 3.13. Misuses; 3.14. Lexical innovations; 4. Overview; 4.1. Semantic profile of verb use; 4.2. The developmental path of verb acquisition; 4.3. Lexical diversity; 5. Conclusion; Chapter 4. Understanding space and time: Preposition learning in children with autism; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Theoretical background3. Semantic profiles by category; 3.1. Spatial; 3.2. Temporal; 3.3. Abstract; 3.4. Grammatical; 3.5. Misuses; 4. Detailed examination of the prepositions in, on, up, and at; 4.1. In; 4.2. On; 4.3. Up; 4.4. At; 5. Overview: Developmental flowchart; 6. Conclusion; Chapter 5. Verbs of thought, desire, and speech in grammatical development; 1. Introduction; 2. Verbs of desire; 3. Verbs of cognition; 4. Verbs of communication; 5. Summary; 6. Theory of mind and complex clauses; 6.1. Theory of mind development; 6.2. Syntactic complements and theory of mind development.
  • 6.3. Verbs of communication and theory of mind development6.4. Complex sentences and theories of language acquisition; 7. Conclusion; Chapter 6. Issues and implications; 1. Overview of study; 2. Semantic development; 3. The effect of autism on the interrelatedness of verbs and prepositions; 4. Theory of mind and complementation; 5. The origin of grammar: A perspective from autism; 6. Final comments; Notes; References; Index.