Toward mapping pragmatic impairment of autism spectrum disorder individuals through the development of a corpus of spoken Japanese.

ABSTRACT: The central symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is deficiency in social communication, which is generally viewed as being caused by pragmatic impairment (PI). PI is difficulty in using language appropriately in social situations. Studies have confirmed that PI is the result of neurological, cognitive, linguistic, and sensorimotor dysfunctions involving intricately intertwined factors. To elucidate the whole picture of this impairment, an approach from a multifaceted perspective fusing those factors is necessary. To this end, comprehensive PI mapping is a must, since no comprehensive mapping has yet been developed. The aim of this research is to present a model of annotation scheme development and corpus construction to efficiently visualize and quantify for statistical investigation

SUBMITTER: Kato S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8880787 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature