Understanding Actions, States, And Events —— Verb Learning in Children with Autism

----- 了解行动，状态和事件：自闭症儿童动词学习

ISBN: 9781614510949 出版年：2012 页码：236 Douglas, Susan De Gruyter Mouton

This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism - namely, how children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key feature is a profile of verb acquisition in autism derived from qualitative analysis of the conversational language of ten children with autism. Douglas examines whether this profile is typical or atypical compared with verb learning in neurotypical children. Verb use is central to linguistic development, and the ability of children with autism to develop and use verb categories is of interest, because verbs also encode information about the number and type of participants and the temporal location of the activity/event. Moreover, the acquisition of verb meanings is often dependent on other cognitive skills, such as the recognition that human beings have beliefs and desires which motivate their actions.