This article reviews the current knowledge state on pragmatic and structural language
abilities in autism and their potential relation to extralinguistic abilities and autistic traits. The …

Diagnostic criteria used in autism research have undergone a shift towards the inclusion of a
larger population, paralleled by increasing, but variable, estimates of autism prevalence …

The goal of this article is to provide a balanced assessment of the significance autism has for
the scientific study of language. While linguistic profiles in autism vary greatly, spanning from …

Thoughts and moods constituting our mental life incessantly change. When the steady flow
of this dynamics diverges in clinical directions, the possible pathways involved are captured …

Background & aims Individuals with non-or minimally verbal autism (nvASD) are primarily
characterized by a severe speech production deficit, with speech limited to no or only a few …

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance'do things' with conversational units of
language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and …

Most research on the neurobiology of language ignores consciousness and vice versa.
Here, language, with an emphasis on inner speech, is hypothesised to generate and sustain …

Background Aphasia following cerebro-vascular accidents has been a primary source of
insight for models of language in the brain. However, deviant language patterns in aphasia …

Intellectual assessment in preschool autistic children bears many challenges, particularly for
those who have lower language and/or cognitive abilities. These challenges often result in …

Despite several criticisms surrounding the DSM classification in psychiatry, a significant bulk
of research on mental conditions still operates according to two core assumptions: a) …