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“Um” and “Uh” Usage Patterns in Children with Autism: Associations with Measures of Structural and Pragmatic Language Ability
Pragmatic language difficulties, including unusual filler usage, are common among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This study...
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One fish, uh, two fish: Effects of fluency and bilingualism on adults’ novel word learning
Listeners utilize speech disfluencies to anticipate novelty in spoken language, but little is known about how speech disfluencies impact novel word...
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Filled Pauses Produced by Autistic Adults Differ in Prosodic Realisation, but not Rate or Lexical Type
We examined the use of filled pauses in conversations between homogeneous pairs of autistic and non-autistic adults. A corpus of semi-spontaneous...
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An Analysis of Turkish Interactional Discourse Markers ‘ŞEY’, ‘YANİ’, And ‘İŞTE’
This paper examines (1) the developmental aspects of the frequency and a range of functions expressed by Turkish interactional discourse markers şey ...
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Linguistic features of spontaneous speech predict conversational recall
Empirical studies of conversational recall show that the amount of conversation that can be recalled after a delay is limited and biased in favor of...
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Veritable Untruths: Autistic Traits and the Processing of Deception
How do we decide whether a statement is literally true? Here, we contrast participants’ eventual evaluations of a speaker’s meaning with the...
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Maintenance Art: Paul Stenner’s Liminality and the Case of Older Caregiving Spouses
Paul Stenner offers a refreshingly new vision of liminality power by deep empiricism and decoupled from rites of passage that which makes it...
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Understanding facilitators for assertiveness among college students in India – a qualitative study
Assertiveness is the ability to be honest with one’s beliefs and interests while not denying the rights of others and includes behaviours like...
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Changes in Heterosexual Couples’ Sexuality During the First Two Years After Breast Cancer Surgery: A Longitudinal Descriptive Study
The study aims to describe couples’ changes in sexuality after non-metastatic breast cancer from a longitudinal perspective. Our research question...
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A Corpus-Based Study on Feedback in Daily Conversation: Forms, Position and Contexts
Understanding how feedback is employed in various forms, positions, and contexts can provide valuable insights into improving communication and the...
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Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study
Health care in prison is a challenging task. The conditions of imprisonment create distinct difficulties for those providing health care in this...
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A Cross-Cultural Examination of Blatant and Subtle Dehumanization of Autistic People
PurposeThis cross-cultural study examined various domains of dehumanization, including both blatant (viewing autistic people as animal-like,...
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Understanding the Needs of Autistic Post-Secondary Students
Autistic students are a growing subgroup within post-secondary schooling; however, little is known about barriers to their success in that context....
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SEEING IS NOT UNDERSTANDING: Vygotsky, Halliday and Metaphor in Forming and Forgetting Middle School Science Concepts
When teachers explain science concepts—for example, the solar wind, or plasma waves—some methods seem to be quick-acting and others long-lasting....
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Competition or Community? The Backstage Experience of Men in Bodybuilding Competitions
Bodybuilding is an increasingly popular sport in the United States. Across fields of psychology, history, sociology, and anthropology, bodybuilding...
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A Sco** Review of Sex/Gender Differences in Social Communication Skills and Behaviors of Autistic Youth—Are Sex/Gender-Specific Interventions Needed?
Despite a known male dominance (4:1) in autism diagnoses, there remains a lack of clarity surrounding sex/gender differences in the social...
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The chronology of collective cheating: a qualitative study of collective dishonesty in academic contexts
Collective cheating can have serious consequences in professional and educational settings. Existing data show that collective cheating is common and...
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Signposts, Guideposts, and Stalls: Pragmatic and Discourse Markers in Dementia Discourse
In ordinary conversations, we don’t always pay much attention to “little words” like so or well or uh. Nevertheless, they play key roles in our...
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“I Talk to Myself”: Exploring the Mental and Emotional Health Experiences of Muslim Rohingya Refugee Adolescents
There is limited research examining the mental and emotional challenges, social support systems, and co** strategies of Muslim Rohingya refugee...
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Effects of Research-Based Teacher Training on Writing Instruction Practices
We explored whether training through and about research on effective writing practices would enable teachers to use these practices fully in their...