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Journal of Pediatric Psychology 18(5) pp. 639-652, 1993
© 1993 Society of Pediatric Psychology

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Oral Discourse After Early-Onset Hydrocephalus: Linguistic Ambiguity, Figurative Language, Speech Acts, and Script-Based Inferences1

Maureen Dennis2 and Marcia A. Barnes

The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ontario

2A11 correspondence should be sent to Maureen Dennis, Department of Psychology-Edward Suite, 555 University Avenue, Toronto. Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada.

Studied 101 children, ages 6 to 15 years (50 with early-onset hydrocephalus, 51 normally developing), on four oral discourse tasks: establishing alternate meanings for ambiguous sentences; understanding figurative expressions; making bridging inferences; and producing speech acts. Children with hydrocephalus performed more poorly than controls on all four discourse tasks; and a higher-IQ hydrocephalus subgroup performed more poorly than controls on all but the figurative expressions task. The fluent, grammatically framed, but content-impoverished language described in early-onset hydrocephalus appears to reflect not so much problems in deriving word- and sentence-based meaning as deficits in the pragmatic use and understanding of language in discourse.

Key words: discourse; hydrocephalus; children; adolescent; normative development.


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