Chapter 6. Discriminators of inferential ability

Chapter 6
Discriminators of inferential ability

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Article outline

6.1Overview
6.2Inferential difficulties and cognitive constraints in ASD:
Theoretical background
- 1.Context integration
- 2.A detail-focused processing style associated with WCC
- 3.Impairments in social inferencing
- 4.Limitations in executive function
- 5.Predictive coding and inferential imbalance
6.3Lexicogrammatical analysis
- 6.3.1Conditional clauses and inferential reasoning
  - i.Predictive inference and resultative conditionals
  - ii.Retrospective inference and cause/reason conditionals
6.4Inferential challenges in processing te-form/conjunctive clauses: Cause/reason
- i.Parallel or contrastive relation
- ii.Forewarning or pre-emptive framing
- iii.Sequential relation
- iv.Attendant circumstance
- v.Cause/reason relation
- vi.Adversative relation
- vii.Resultative conditional relation
6.5Modalization-probability
- 6.5.1Theoretical framework of modality in SFL constructs
- 6.5.2Orientation
- 6.5.3Modalization–probability and inferential difficulty in ASD
- 6.5.4Evidentiality-appearance
- 6.5.5Distinction between modalization–probability
  and evidentiality–reasoning
  - i.Probability as internal judgment
  - ii.Evidentiality as source attribution
6.6Chapter conclusion