To mark or not to mark the cause, that is the question: Causal marking in Taiwanese conversation

Chang, Miao; Su, Hsin Yi

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.08.007

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“…In other words, causal connectives may not be the first choice for Chinese speakers to indicate causality. As shown in previous studies (Chang & Su, 2012; Sah, 2015), Chinese speakers prefer using non-overtly marked causal statements over overtly marked ones in discourse. Such a discourse tendency may presumably lead to the scarce instances of causal connectives found in the present study and thus have limited our power to detect group differences for overtly marked causal statements.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 60%

“…Therefore, we identified overtly marked causal statements in terms of causal connectives. For instance, yin1wei4 fa1xian4 xiao3 qing1wa1 bu2jian4 le0 'because (he) realizes the little frog has gone' was coded as an overtly marked causal statement since the prototypical causal marker yin1wei4 ('because' in Mandarin Chinese) was used to introduce the account (Chang & Su, 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More importantly, the present study extends Tsou and Cheung’s research to show that not only preschool (Tsou & Cheung’s study) but also school-age (the present study) Mandarin-speaking children with ASD were comparable to TD children in using overtly marked causal statements. According to Chang and Su (2012), when the propositional and causal relation between utterances is self-evident, Chinese speakers may choose not to mark the relation with a lexical connective. In other words, causal connectives may not be the first choice for Chinese speakers to indicate causality.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, research has shown that Chinese speakers use significantly more non-overtly marked causal statements than overtly marked ones in discourse, which suggests that causal connectives may not be the first choice for Chinese speakers to indicate causal relations (Chang & Su, 2012; Sah, 2015). In view of this, studies on Mandarin-speaking individuals with ASD need to examine not only overtly marked causal statements but also non-overtly marked ones.…”

Section: Narrative Coherence In Mandarin-speaking Children With Asdmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Narrative coherence of Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: An investigation into causal relations

Sah

Torng

2015

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Previous research has shown that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had difficulty integrating narrative information coherently. The majority of these studies focused on people narrating in English; however, little is known about the narrative abilities of Mandarin-speaking individuals with ASD. This study investigates the ability of Mandarin-speaking children with ASD to achieve narrative coherence. The data consist of narratives from 18 children with high-functioning ASD (M age : 8.23) and 18 typically developing children (M age : 7.03), matched on language and cognitive abilities. The narratives were elicited using Frog, where are you? Narrative coherence was assessed in terms of causal statements and causal networks. The results reveal no group differences in basic narrative measures or in overtly marked causal statements. The two groups of children were equally sensitive to the relative causal importance of story events. However, the narratives of children with ASD were less causally connected and less coherent. These findings are discussed with regard to their relationship to pragmatic deficits and the cognitive preference of children with ASD.

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