The Contribution of Grammar, Vocabulary and Theory of Mind in Pragmatic Language Competence in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Affiliations

¹ Department of Developmental, Educational Social and Methodological Psychology, Universitat Jaume I de CastellóCastellón, Spain.
² Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom.

Clara Andrés-Roqueta et al. Front Psychol. 2017.

. 2017 Jun 15:8:996.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00996. eCollection 2017.

¹ Department of Developmental, Educational Social and Methodological Psychology, Universitat Jaume I de CastellóCastellón, Spain.
² Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom.

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Keywords: autistic spectrum disorders (ASD); grammar; pragmatics; social cognition; structural language; theory of mind; vocabulary.

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