Person-reference in autism spectrum disorder: Developmental trends and the role of linguistic input
Person-reference in autism spectrum disorder: Developmental trends and the role of linguistic input
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10.1002/aur.2243
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2019-11-26
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4.7
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Tager-Flusberg, Helen
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Barokova, Mihaela;Tager-Flusberg, Helen
过去的研究提供了混合证据的性质和困难与自闭症谱系障碍儿童的人称代词。到目前为止，还没有研究通过观察指称语言的指称对象（自我与他人）和指称方式（具有移动指称的词：人称代词，与固定指称的词：名称和名词）来更广泛地研究自闭症患者的人称指称的性质。此外，语言输入的作用，特别是在自闭症的指称语言领域还没有调查过。我们收集了自闭症儿童（N = 38; 7名女性）在三个时间点（2岁，3岁和4岁）的亲子互动的自然语言样本，并进行了一系列标准化评估，以评估他们的语言能力。样本被转录和编码的人所指的语言。自闭症儿童在提及自己和父母时使用越来越多的代词，但代词颠倒非常罕见。他们的人称参照使用仅在2岁时与语言能力相关。父母投入的特点也是代词的使用增加，但仅在提到他们的孩子时。父母和孩子的人际关系在时间上并不相关，但在3岁时却同时相关。自闭症研究2019年。(c)2019年国际自闭症研究学会，Wiley Periodicals，Inc。在这项研究中，我们发现，随着自闭症儿童年龄的增长，他们使用越来越多的人称代词来指代自己和父母。此外，他们很少颠倒他们的代词（用我而不是你），38个孩子中只有1个犯代词错误。这种代词错误的缺乏表明，自闭症中的代词困难可能不会在整个发展过程中长时间发生，并且可能不像以前认为的那样在自闭症中普遍存在。
Past research has provided mixed evidence of the nature and difficulty with personal pronouns of children with autism spectrum disorder. No study to date has examined the nature of person-reference in autism, more broadly, by looking at referential language both in terms of who is being referred to (self vs. other) and how (words with shifting reference: personal pronouns, vs. fixed reference: names and nouns). Furthermore, the role of linguistic input specifically in the domain of referential language in autism has not been investigated before. We collected natural language samples from parent-child interactions from children with autism (N = 38; 7 female) at three time points (age 2, 3, and 4 years) and administered a battery of standardized assessments to evaluate their language ability. The samples were transcribed and coded for person-referential language. Children with autism used increasingly more pronouns both when referring to themselves and to their parent, but pronoun reversals were extremely rare. Their person-reference use was associated with language ability only at age 2. Parental input was also characterized by an increase in pronoun use but only when referring to their child. Parents' and children's person-reference were not associated across time, but they were concurrently related at age 3. Autism Res 2019. (c) 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Lay Summary In this study, we found that as children with autism grew older, they used more and more personal pronouns to refer both to themselves and their parents. Furthermore, they very rarely reversed their pronouns (used I instead of you) with only 1 child out of 38 making a pronoun error. This lack of pronoun errors suggests that pronoun difficulty in autism might not occur for long periods of time throughout development and might not be as prevalent in autism as previously thought.