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Object relative clauses in Dutch-speaking children with High-Functioning Autism (HFA)

Author: Schaeffer Jeannette C.   Siekman Bart  

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

E-ISSN: 1569-9919|33|1|135-151

ISSN: 0929-7332

Source: Linguistics in the Netherlands, Vol.33, Iss.1, 2016-01, pp. : 135-151

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Abstract

Previous studies show that Direct Object Scrambling (DOS) is impaired in Dutch-speaking children with High-Functioning Autism (HFA). However, as DOS can be considered a syntax-pragmatics interface phenomenon, it is unclear whether DOS errors are due to impaired syntax or impaired pragmatics. In order to shed light on this question, the current study investigates Object Relative Clauses (ORC), assumed to involve syntactic object placement (as in DOS), but not pragmatics, in children with HFA.