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Navigating conversations with autistic children: Maternal use of alternative questions

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Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk

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Abstract

Discourse Studies, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 502-521, June 2026.
This study employs conversation analysis (CA) to examine how Chinese mothers deploy alternative questions (AQs) during interactions with their autistic children. This addresses a gap in research on the fine-grained dynamics of AQs within neurodivergent ...