caa a22 4500 463249488 CHVBK 20180405153335.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10803-006-0239-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10803-006-0239-2 Beyond Pragmatics: Morphosyntactic Development in Autism [Elektronische Daten] [Inge-Marie Eigsti, Loisa Bennetto, Mamta Dadlani] Language acquisition research in autism has traditionally focused on high-level pragmatic deficits. Few studies have examined grammatical abilities in autism, with mixed findings. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by providing a detailed investigation of syntactic and higher-level discourse abilities in verbal children with autism, age 5years. Findings indicate clear language difficulties that go beyond what would be expected based on developmental level; specifically, syntactic delays, impairments in discourse management and increased production of non-meaningful words (jargon). The present study indicates a highly specific pattern of language impairments, and importantly, syntactic delays, in a group of children with autism carefully matched on lexical level and non-verbal mental age with children with developmental delays and typical development. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2006 Autism nationallicence Language acquisition nationallicence Syntax nationallicence Vocabulary nationallicence Pragmatics nationallicence Eigsti Inge-Marie Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA aut Bennetto Loisa Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA aut Dadlani Mamta Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA aut Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/6(2007-07-01), 1007-1023 0162-3257 37:6<1007 2007 37 10803 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0239-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0239-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eigsti Inge-Marie Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bennetto Loisa Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dadlani Mamta Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/6(2007-07-01), 1007-1023 0162-3257 37:6<1007 2007 37 10803 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer