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Developmental pragmatics in normal and abnormal children.

B G Bara1, F M Bosco, M Bucciarelli

  • 1Centro di Scienza Cognitiva, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.

Brain and Language
|August 11, 1999
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This review examines developmental pragmatics theories, focusing on how brain injury impacts pragmatic skills like speech acts, irony, and deceit in children. A framework for normal development is needed to understand abnormal pragmatic deficits.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Clinical Neuroscience

Background:

  • Current theories of developmental pragmatics lack a unified framework for both typical and atypical development.
  • Understanding pragmatic competence is crucial for assessing the impact of neurological conditions on communication.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically review existing theories of developmental pragmatics.
  • To explore the effects of brain damage on the emergence of pragmatic competence in children.
  • To identify the need for a normal developmental framework to study pragmatic deficits.

Main Methods:

  • Critical literature review of developmental pragmatics theories.
  • Analysis of studies on children with various brain injuries (head injury, hydrocephalus, focal brain damage) and autism.

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  • Examination of specific pragmatic phenomena: direct and indirect speech acts, irony, and deceit.

    • Main Results:

    • No single theory adequately explains both normal pragmatic development and deficits in brain-injured children.
    • Existing research does not systematically account for pragmatic impairments following brain injury.
    • Specific pragmatic deficits are observed in children with conditions like head injury and autism.

    Conclusions:

    • A comprehensive theory of developmental pragmatics must account for both normal and abnormal development.
    • Establishing a normative developmental pattern is essential for systematically studying pragmatic deficits.
    • Such a framework will facilitate the study of communication impairments in brain-injured children and those with autism.