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Using language: Communicative acts
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The article was published on 1996-01-01. It has received 2737 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Communicative language teaching & Comprehension approach.read more
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Children’s Referential Communication Failure The Ambiguity and Abbreviation of Message
TL;DR: In this paper, a referential communication task of abstract figures was performed by 64 third and fifth-grade speakers, who produced messages for an imaginary listener, and the results revealed that 8-year-olds prod...
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Unconfounding common ground
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Gesture as representational action: A paper about function.
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Listener vs. speaker-oriented aspects of speech: Studying the disfluencies of individuals with autism spectrum disorders
TL;DR: Results showed that individuals with ASD produced fewer filled-pause words (ums and uhs) and revisions than controls, but more silent pauses and disfluent repetitions, which appear to be listener-oriented features of speech.
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Accessibility to electronic communication for people with cognitive disabilities: a systematic search and review of empirical evidence
TL;DR: Although thin, the current evidence base indicates that the accessibility needs, requirements, and preferences of people with cognitive disabilities are diverse and ought to be reflected in accessibility guidelines and standards.