The Effects of Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Prominence on Pronoun Interpretation in Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Purpose: Pronouns are referentially ambiguous: For example, "she" could refer to any female. Nonetheless, errors in pronoun interpretation rarely occur for adults with typical development (TD) due to several strategies implicitly shared between the talker and listener. The purpose of this study was...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 66; no. 9; pp. 3606 - 3622 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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