Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Autism. 2012 Sep;16(5):523-31. doi: 10.1177/1362361311406296. Epub 2012 Mar 7.
This study assesses the extent to which children with autism understand requests performed with grammatically non-imperative sentence types. Ten children with autism were videotaped in naturalistic conditions. Four grammatical sentence types were distinguished: imperative, declarative, interrogative and sub-sentential. For each category, the proportion of requests complied with significantly exceeded the proportion of requests not complied with, and no difference across categories was found. These results show that children with autism do not rely exclusively on the linguistic form to interpret an utterance as a request.
本研究评估了自闭症儿童理解使用非祈使句类型执行的请求的程度。十名自闭症儿童在自然环境下进行了录像。区分了四种语法句型：祈使句、陈述句、疑问句和子句。对于每种类别，遵守请求的比例明显超过不遵守请求的比例，并且在类别之间没有发现差异。这些结果表明，自闭症儿童并非仅仅依赖语言形式将话语解释为请求。
