ORAL DISCOURSE AFTER EARLY-ONSET HYDROCEPHALUS - LINGUISTIC AMBIGUITY, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, SPEECH ACTS, AND SCRIPT-BASED INFERENCES

被引:45
作者
DENNIS, M [1 ]
BARNES, MA [1 ]
机构
[1] HOSP SICK CHILDREN, TORONTO M5G 1X8, ONTARIO, CANADA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
DISCOURSE; HYDROCEPHALUS; CHILDREN; ADOLESCENTS; NORMATIVE DEVELOPMENT;
D O I
10.1093/jpepsy/18.5.639
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
Studied 101 children, ages 6 to 15 years (50 with early-onset hydrocephalus, 51 normally developing), on four oral discourse tasks: establishing alternate meanings for ambiguous sentences; understanding figurative expressions; making bridging inferences; and producing speech acts. Children with hydrocephalus performed more poorly than controls on all four discourse tasks; and a higher-IQ hydrocephalus subgroup performed more poorly than controls on all but the figurative expressions task. The fluent, grammatically framed, but content-impoverished language described in early-onset hydrocephalus appears to reflect not so much problems in deriving word- and sentence-based meaning as deficits in the pragmatic use and understanding of language in discourse.
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页码:639 / 652
页数:14
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