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Answering contextually demanding questions : pragmatic errors produced by children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism
Loukusa, S.; Leinonen, E.; Jussila, K.; Mattila, M.; Ryder, N.; Ebeling, H.; Moilanen, I. (2007)This study examined irrelevant/incorrect answers produced by children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism (7–9-year-olds and 10–12-year-olds) and normally developing children (7–9-year-olds). The errors ... -
Answering questions and explaining answers : a study of Finnish-speaking children
Loukusa, S.; Ryder, N.; Leinonen, E. (2008)This research explores, within the framework of Relevance Theory, how children’s ability to answer questions and explain their answers develops between the ages of 3 and 9 years. Two hundred and ten normally developing ... -
Appropriacy judgements and pragmatic performance
Leinonen, E.; Smith, B.R. (1994)This paper examines judgements of inappropriacy made by groups of independent raters from different professional backgrounds when presented with data from two boys with semantic, pragmatic and syntactic difficulties, who ... -
Changing Pedagogy: Does the Introduction of Networked Learning Have an Impact on Teaching
Thornton, M.E.; Jefferies, A.; Jones, I.; Alltree, J.; Leinonen, E. (2004)The University of Hertfordshire s Managed Learning Environment initiative, known as StudyNet, was developed in-house. Throughout the development, the enhancement of learning and teaching quality has remained a central ... -
Cognitive approach to assessing pragmatic language comprehension in children with specific language impairment
Ryder, N.; Leinonen, E.; Schulz, J. (2008)Pragmatic language impairment in children with specific language impairment has proved difficult to assess, and the nature of their abilities to comprehend pragmatic meaning has not been fully investigated. -
Comprehension of inferential meaning in language-impaired and language normal children
Letts, C.; Leinonen, E. (2001)Three groups of language-normal (LN) 6, 8 and 16/17 year olds, and a group of language-impaired (LI) children were given a task answering questions about pictures that involved inferential meaning. A developmental progression ... -
Development of pragmatic language comprehension in Finnish-speaking children
Loukusa, S.; Leinonen, E.; Ryder, N. (2007)This research explores the development of pragmatic comprehension within the framework of relevance theory. Participants were 210 typically developing Finnish children aged from 3 to 9 years. The children were asked questions ... -
Linguistic performance in children who develop schizophrenia in adult life : Evidence for normal syntactic ability
Done, D.J.; Leinonen, E.; Crow, T.J.; Sacker, A. (1998) -
Normal and language-impaired children's use of reference: syntactic vs pragmatic processing
Schelletter, Christina; Leinonen, E. (2003)The present study investigates children's syntactic and pragmatic processing when specifying referents presented in short video clips. Within Relevance theory, the assumption of 'optimal relevance' implies that utterances ... -
Pragmatic influences in children's ability to answer questions
Ryder, N.; Leinonen, E. (Cascadilla Press, 2001) -
Relevance theory and pragmatic impairment
Leinonen, E.; Kerbel, D. (1999)This paper summarizes aspects of relevance theory that are useful for exploring impairment of pragmatic comprehension in children. It explores data from three children with pragmatic language diffi culties within this ... -
Use of context in pragmatic comprehension by specifically language-impaired and control children
Leinonen, E.; Ryder, N.; Ellis, M.; Hammon, C. (2003) -
Use of context in pragmatic language comprehension by children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism
Loukusa, S.; Leinonen, E.; Kuusikko, S.; Jussila, K.; Mattila, M.; Ryder, N.; Ebeling, H.; Moilanen, A. (2007)Utilizing relevance theory, this study investigated the ability of children with Asperger syndrome (AS) and high-functioning autism (HFA) to use context when answering questions and when giving explanations for their correct ... -
Use of context in question answering by 3,4 and 5 year old children
Ryder, N.; Leinonen, E. (2003)