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Autistic and non-autistic adults use discourse context to determine a speaker's intention to request.

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September 2024

Communication Sciences and Disorders at James Madison University, Health and Behavioral Studies Building, 235 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Rm. 1068, Harrisonburg, VA, 22801, USA.

The current study focuses on how autistic adults utilize context to determine whether ambiguous utterances (e.g., "I'm thirsty") are intended as indirect requests or as literal comment/questions.

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