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Title:A diminished propensityto compute scalar implicaturesis linked to autistic traits
Authors:ID Mazzaggio, Greta (Author)
ID Surian, Luca (Author)
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Language:English
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Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:UNG - University of Nova Gorica
Abstract:We investigated whether there is an association between autistic traits in the broader pheno- type and the ability to compute scalar implicatures. Previous studies found that the frequency of autistic traits is higher in students of science than of humanities. Here we recorded the frequency of rejection of underinformative scalar items in students enrolled either in a science or in a humanities curriculum and assessed their autistic traits using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaire. We found that rejec- tions were less frequent in science curricula students than in humanities curricula students. Moreover, rejections were associated negatively with autistic traits and positively with performance on Theory- of-Mind tasks. These findings suggest that autism cognitive phenotype is negatively associated with a propensity to spontaneously derive scalar implicatures.
Keywords:scalar implicatures, quantifiers, Autism-spectrum Quotient, pragmatics, theory of mind
Year of publishing:2018
Number of pages:str. 651-668
Numbering:Vol. 65, iss. 4
PID:20.500.12556/RUNG-6744 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:76858883 New window
UDC:81'23
ISSN on article:2559-8201
DOI:10.1556/2062.2018.65.4.4 New window
NUK URN:URN:SI:UNG:REP:KPH2EWDD
Publication date in RUNG:17.09.2021
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MAZZAGGIO, Greta and SURIAN, Luca, 2018, A diminished propensityto compute scalar implicaturesis linked to autistic traits. Acta linguistica academica. ǂan ǂinternational journal of linguistics [online]. 2018. Vol. 65, no. 4, p. 651–668. [Accessed 28 April 2025]. DOI 10.1556/2062.2018.65.4.4. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.ung.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=6744
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Title:Acta linguistica academica. ǂan ǂinternational journal of linguistics
Shortened title:Acta linguist. acad.
Publisher:Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN:2559-8201
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