Comprehension of presupposition triggers in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders

Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang; Rong, Yicheng; Chen, Fei; Leung, Mkh; Tang, Tempo Po Yi

doi:10.1080/02699206.2019.1673486

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“…In contrast to the large numbers of studies which have investigated "also" in TD children, to the best of our knowledge, no existing research has investigated atypical children's understanding of this presupposition trigger. That is, Cheung et al (2017Cheung et al ( , 2020) (which we will turn to next) are the only existing work that has examined the interpretations of presupposition triggers in children with ASD, and they did not include this trigger in their investigation.…”

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“…Both Cheung et al (2017Cheung et al ( , 2020 adopted the same task, which involved participants judging whether a given utterance was or was not a presupposition of a preceding utterance. Specifically, participants were presented with Cantonese versions of sentences like (6a), followed up with either the continuation in (6b) or (6c).…”

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“…For this reason, we think a natural next step for research in this area is to investigate some of these triggers in isolation, thereby allowing us to check whether, as far as acquisition is concerned, they actually do follow the same trajectory. Cheung et al (2020) investigated the understanding that Cantonese-speaking children with ASD (7;07-11;11, M = 9;01) have of the presuppositions associated with seven different types of presupposition triggers, namely, definite descriptions ("the professor"), factive predicates ("know", "regret"), change-of-state verbs ("start", "quit"), implicative verbs ("forget"), iteratives ("again", "not anymore"), counterfactual conditionals ("if "), and temporal clauses ("before"). It was found that children with ASD performed significantly worse than their age-matched TD peers, but similarly to their language-matched TD counterparts, in regard to their understanding of the presuppositions associated with all of the trigger classes, except for temporal clauses.…”

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“…The present study attempts to further investigate language impairments in the ASD population by focusing on their understanding of the presuppositions conveyed by certain lexical items (i.e., presupposition "triggers"). To understand how presupposition triggers contribute to linguistic meaning, a hearer has to be able to distinguish the presupposed information introduced by the trigger from any non-presupposed information (e.g., entailments, implicatures) and also understand how these various components interact and contribute to the final meaning of a host-utterance (Karttunen, 1974;Stalnaker, 1974Stalnaker, , 2002Levinson, 1983;Cheung et al, 2020).…”

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“…As far as we know, Cheung et al (2017Cheung et al ( , 2020 are the only studies that have investigated the understanding that individuals with ASD have of presupposition triggers. Notably, these studies targeted Cantonese-speaking school-aged children and did not include the Cantonese counterpart of the presupposition trigger "also".…”

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Several studies suggest that a valuable tool to examine linguistic skills in communication disorders is offered by procedures of narrative discourse assessment. Following this line of research, we present an exploratory study aimed to investigate storytelling abilities of autistic children to better define the characteristics of their story production. Participants included 41 autistic children and 41 children with typical development aged between 7.02 and 11.03 years matched on age, gender, level of formal education, intelligence quotient, working memory, attention skills, theory of mind, and phonological short-term memory. Narrative production was assessed by analysing the language samples obtained through the “Nest Story” description task. A multilevel analysis including micro- and macro-linguistic variables was adopted for narrative assessment. Group differences emerged on both micro- and macro-linguistic dimensions: autistic children produced narratives with more phonological errors and semantic paraphasias (microlinguistic variables) as well as more errors of global coherence and a fewer number of visible events and inferred events (macrolinguistic variables) than the control group.This study shows that even autistic children with adequate cognitive skills display several limitations in their narrative competence and that such weaknesses affect both micro- and macrolinguistic aspects of story production.

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Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and social pragmatic communication disorder (SPCD) are two neurodevelopmental disorders with many similarities in affected individuals' impairments in social-communicative and pragmatic development. A central question pertaining to their differentiation concerns whether the distinction is truly qualitative or, instead, quantitative in nature, and indeed, defining the boundary between SPCD and ASD with IQ in the normal range often presents differential-diagnostic difficulties. While deficits in the comprehension of certain linguistically systematic implicit verbal meanings have been targeted by experimental research in ASD, to date they have not been investigated in controlled experiments in SPCD. Aims:The empirical objectives of our study are twofold. First, it is explored whether the comprehension of a set of highly systematic, grammaticalized implicit meanings is impaired in ASD and SPCD children compared to their typically developing (TD) peers, and whether ASD and SPCD children differ from each other in accessing these verbal meanings. Second, it is investigated whether receptive grammatical competence and first-order ToM abilities are associated with children's performance in any way and whether there is a difference in this regard between the ASD and the SPCD group. Methods & Procedures: Our main experiment, using a sentence-picture verification task, tested the comprehension of highly systematic implicit verbal meanings, including grammaticalized implicatures, presuppositions, and entailments.The experiment was complemented with a false-belief (ToM) task and a test of receptive grammar, among other measures. Seventy-one 4-to-9-year-old children participated in the study (ASD: n=19, SPCD: n=13, TD controls: n=39).Outcomes & Results: While both children with SPCD and children with ASD performed significantly more poorly than the TD group, only the comprehension profile of the SPCD group differed significantly from that of the TD group. Importantly, while ASDs' performance exhibited an association with their ToM results,This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Comprehension of presupposition triggers in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders

Cited by 4 publications

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Comprehension of the Presupposition Trigger Ye “Also” by Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders

Comprehension of the Presupposition Trigger Ye “Also” by Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders

Defining the Characteristics of Story Production of Autistic Children: A Multilevel Analysis

The comprehension of grammaticalized implicit meanings in SPCD and ASD children: A comparative study

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