Despite widespread use of LLMs as conversational agents, evaluations of performance fail
to capture a crucial aspect of communication: interpreting language in context …

Background and aims: Given that problems with social interaction and communication are
defining features of autism spectrum disorder, it stands to reason that individuals with autism …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

As proposed for the emergence of modern languages, we argue that modern uses of
languages (pragmatics) also evolved gradually in our species under the effects of human …

By utilizing the Pragma test this study investigated how sixteen five-to ten-year-old children
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and sixteen typically developing (TD) children …

This study investigated the understanding of underinformative sentences like “Some
elephants have trunks” by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The scalar term …

A growing body of research has focused on the relationship between priming and
engagement through dialogue (eg Tantucci and Wang in Appl Linguist 43 (1): 115–146 …

Introduction This study aimed to determine the safety and efficacy of treatment with
autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (BMMSCs) compared with the routine …

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental spectrum condition which is characterised by
many kinds of pragmatic communication features. The features vary individually, but usually …

Pragmatic difficulties resulting in problems with reciprocal conversation are widely studied in
individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). There is some consensus on the …