Tag: understanding problem
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Open class repair initiators in a telephone-interpreted asylum screening interview
A study authored by Simo Määttä and me focuses on open class repair initiators in an asylum screening interview (duration 2: 22: 15). The interview took place in Finland, and it was telephone-interpreted between Finnish, language spoken by the officer, and French, language used by the asylum seeker. An open class repair initiator indicates that the…
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Ungrammatical utterances and disfluent speech as causes of comprehension problems in interactions of preadolescents with highly functioning autism
A recent study authored by me and Minna Laakso (2019) describes the role of ungrammatical utterances and disfluent speech in the creation of comprehension problems between the participants in group therapy sessions of preadolescents with autism. The speech of the autistic preadolescents included frequent disfluencies and morpho-syntactic problems, such as wrong case endings, ambiguous…