23.1414, Books: Understanding Actions, States, and Events: Douglas

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Subject: 23.1414, Books: Understanding Actions, States, and Events: Douglas

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:00:03
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Understanding Actions, States, and Events: Douglas

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Title: Understanding Actions, States, and Events 
Subtitle: Verb Learning in Children with Autism 
Series Title: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] 45  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181469?format=G 

Author: Susan Louise Douglas

Electronic: ISBN:  9781614510864 Pages: 224 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781614510949 Pages: 224 Price: Europe EURO 99.95

Abstract:

This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism - 
namely, how children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key feature is 
a profile of verb acquisition in autism derived from qualitative analysis of the 
conversational language of ten children with autism. Douglas examines whether 
this profile is typical or atypical compared with verb learning in neurotypical 
children. Verb use is central to linguistic development, and the ability of children 
with autism to develop and use verb categories is of interest, because verbs 
also encode information about the number and type of participants and the 
temporal location of the activity/event. Moreover, the acquisition of verb 
meanings is often dependent on other cognitive skills, such as the recognition 
that human beings have beliefs and desires which motivate their actions. All 
these are areas which are widely considered problematic for children with autism 
and continue to generate much discussion among researchers and clinicians. 
This investigation is among the first studies of its type, offering new insights 
into the process of language acquisition in autism. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Language Acquisition
                     Neurolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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