Personal Pronoun Comprehension and Theory of Mind in Autistic Adults.
Purpose: Pronouns stitch together discourse by linking referents within and across sentences. Previous research has shown that people often rely on two strategies to interpret pronouns: the subject bias (assuming the pronoun refers to the subject of a prior sentence) and the repeated mention bias (a...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 672 - 691 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jun2025
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