{"id":2364,"date":"2014-03-21T18:08:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2014-09-24T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:20:03","slug":"vikki-janke-to-talk-at-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/21\/vikki-janke-to-talk-at-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikki Janke to talk at UCL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Vikki Janke<\/a> from the Department of English Language & Linguistics<\/a> will be giving a talk entitled ‘From Syntax to Pragmatics in High-Functioning Autism’ at UCL<\/a>‘s \u00a0Department of Developmental Science on Monday 24 March.<\/p>\n

Vikki’s presentation will discuss a group of sentences called \u2018control\u2019 constructions. For some of these sentences, their interpretation is set by grammar – if a child\u2019s grammar is developing in a typical way, we expect these \u2018grammatically controlled\u2019 constructions to follow a typical path of development. For the second type of these sentences, \u00a0interpretation is set ‘pragmatically’ – that the context of the sentence is important – and so the child needs both an intact grammar and an intact pragmatics for them to develop.<\/p>\n

The combination of grammatical and pragmatic prerequisites that characterises this group of constructions makes them an excellent means of distinguishing between problems with \u2018complex grammar\u2019 on the one hand and problems with \u2018primary pragmatics\u2019 on the other. Children with autism present with difficulties in many aspects of pragmatics, whilst exhibiting a more diverse grammatical profile. Vikki will discuss the results of three studies in which the development of the above constructions in a group of high-functioning children with autism is examined, using a sequence of picture-selection tasks. To anticipate, the children show mastery of the grammatically controlled constructions, and a development in line with that of TD, but initial analyses of their responses to \u2018pragmatically controlled\u2019 constructions suggest a pattern that is atypical.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Department of Developmental Science at UCL, please see the website here: www.ucl.ac.uk\/psychlangsci\/research\/dev-sci<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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