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Syntactic and story structure complexity in the narratives of high-and low-language ability children with autism spectrum disorder
(2017-11-20)Although language impairment is commonly associated with the autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the Diagnostic Statistical Manual no longer includes language impairment as a necessary component of an ASD diagnosis (American ... -
Learning, Consolidating, and Generalising Novel Morphology
(2018-04-04)Despite a central role for morphological knowledge in supporting linguistic generalisation, the neural representations supporting its learning remain largely unexplored. This thesis addressed this gap by exploring the role ... -
Ein Mischmasch aus Deutsch und Französisch: Ideological tensions in young people’s discursive constructions of Luxembourgish
Luxembourg often has been classified as a ‘triglossic’ country in sociolinguistic literature, due to Luxembourgish being used predominantly for spoken functions and French and German for written functions. However, language ... -
Slurs, truth-value judgements, and context sensitivity
(Slovak Academic Press Ltd, 2018-02-08)Cappelen and Lepore (2005) claim that the English language contains a basic and limited set of context-sensitive expressions, as only expressions within this set pass the truth-related tests that they propose to single out ...
