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Zhou, Peng; Ma, Weiyi; Zhan, Likan – First Language, 2020
The present study investigated whether Mandarin-speaking preschool children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were able to use prosodic cues to understand others' communicative intentions. Using the visual world eye-tracking paradigm, the study found that unlike typically developing (TD) 4-year-olds, both 4-year-olds with ASD and 5-year-olds…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Preschool Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Guan, Yao; Farrar, M. Jeffrey – First Language, 2016
Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to identify, reflect upon, and manipulate linguistic units. It plays a critical role in reading development. The present study investigated Chinese- and English-speaking preschoolers' metalinguistic awareness development and the role of cognitive and linguistic abilities in its development. Forty-two…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Preschool Children, Chinese, English