Linguistic Recursion and Danish Discourse Particles: Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Patrick Rowan Blackburn; Torben Braüner; Irina Polyanskaya

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Linguistic Recursion and Danish Discourse Particles: Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Patrick Rowan Blackburn^*, Torben Braüner, Irina Polyanskaya

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Abstract

In a study involving 62 Danish children with autism spectrum disorder, we obtained results showing that the mastery of linguistic recursion is a significant predictor of success in second-order false belief tasks. The same study also showed that the mastery of linguistic recursion was not significantly correlated with success in a task involving three heavily used Danish discourse particles. This calls for further explanation, as the reasoning involved in both types of tasks seems similar. In this paper, we discuss second-order false belief reasoning, the reasoning underlying the use of the three Danish discourse particles, say what we know about them experimentally, and discuss what they do (and don’t) have in common.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	(In)coherence of Discourse : Formal and Conceptual Issues of Language
Editors	Maxime Amblard, Michel Musiol, Manuel Rebuschi
Number of pages	22
Publisher	Springer VS
Publication date	2021
Pages	21-42
ISBN (Print)	9783030714338
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030714345
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71434-5_2
Publication status	Published - 2021

Series	Language, Cognition, and Mind
Number	10
ISSN	2364-4109

Keywords

Recursion
Autism spectrum disorder
Sentential complements
Discourse particles
Theory of mind
Second-order false beliefs
Logic

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Blackburn, P. R., Braüner, T., & Polyanskaya, I. (2021). Linguistic Recursion and Danish Discourse Particles: Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In M. Amblard, M. Musiol, & M. Rebuschi (Eds.), (In)coherence of Discourse: Formal and Conceptual Issues of Language (pp. 21-42). Springer VS. Language, Cognition, and Mind No. 10 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71434-5_2

Blackburn, Patrick Rowan ; Braüner, Torben ; Polyanskaya, Irina. / Linguistic Recursion and Danish Discourse Particles : Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. (In)coherence of Discourse: Formal and Conceptual Issues of Language. editor / Maxime Amblard ; Michel Musiol ; Manuel Rebuschi. Springer VS, 2021. pp. 21-42 (Language, Cognition, and Mind; No. 10).

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Linguistic Recursion and Danish Discourse Particles : Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. / Blackburn, Patrick Rowan ; Braüner, Torben; Polyanskaya, Irina.

(In)coherence of Discourse: Formal and Conceptual Issues of Language. ed. / Maxime Amblard; Michel Musiol; Manuel Rebuschi. Springer VS, 2021. p. 21-42 (Language, Cognition, and Mind; No. 10).

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