This review summarizes studies involving pragmatic language comprehension and
inference abilities in individuals with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism …

Abstract The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) was designed in
order to assess narrative skills in children who acquire one or more languages from birth or …

Established as the foremost textbook on communication, the seventh edition of Owen
Hargie's Skilled Interpersonal Communication is thoroughly revised and updated with the …

Utterances such as “Megan ate some of the cupcakes” are often interpreted as “Megan ate
some but not all of the cupcakes”. Such an interpretation is thought to arise from a pragmatic …

This study examined age differences in 299 preschoolers' responses to investigative
interviewers' questions exploring the suspected occurrence of child abuse. Analyses …

This study focuses on the development of narrative structure and the relationship between
narrative productivity and event content. A total of 172 Finnish children aged between four …

Questions represent a crucial tool of interaction between parents and children from a very
early age. This study aims to investigate which function–argumentative or explanatory–most …

Irony is one of the linguistic means in which intended and expressed meaning diverge. It
serves social-communicative functions, requires the understanding of the speaker's mental …

The study was designed to investigate pragmatic development and the ability to make
comments/questions on social and non-social topics in Italian-speaking children aged 18 …

A linguagem é um sistema convencional de símbolos arbitrários que são combinados de
modo sistemático para armazenar e trocar informações. A compreensão pode ser definida …