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Tecoulesco, Lisa; Fein, Deborah; Naigles, Letitia R. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Categorical induction abilities are robust in typically developing (TD) preschoolers, while children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) frequently perform inconsistently on tasks asking for the transference of traits from a known category member to a new example based on shared category membership. Here, TD five-year-olds and six-year-olds with…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Task Analysis
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Bruyneel, Eva; Demurie, Ellen; Boterberg, Sofie; Warreyn, Petra; Roeyers, Herbert – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The validity of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) System was evaluated for Dutch. 216 5-min samples (six samples per age per child) were selected from daylong recordings at 5, 10 and 14 months of age of native Dutch-speaking younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (N=6) and of typically developing children (N=6). Two…
Descriptors: Validity, Indo European Languages, Infants, Longitudinal Studies
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Yoshida, Hanako; Cirino, Paul; Mire, Sarah S.; Burling, Joseph M.; Lee, Sunbok – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The present study focused on parents' social cue use in relation to young children's attention. Participants were ten parent-child dyads; all children were 36 to 60 months old and were either typically developing (TD) or were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children wore a head-mounted camera that recorded the proximate child view…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Toddlers
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Chin, Iris; Goodwin, Matthew S.; Vosoughi, Soroush; Roy, Deb; Naigles, Letitia R. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Studies investigating the development of tense/aspect in children with developmental disorders have focused on production frequency and/or relied on short spontaneous speech samples. How children with developmental disorders use future forms/constructions is also unknown. The current study expands this literature by examining frequency,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
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Van Rooijen, Rianne; Ward, Emma Kate; De Jonge, Maretha; Kemner, Chantal; Junge, Caroline – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have smaller vocabularies in infancy compared to typically-developing children. To understand whether their smaller vocabularies stem from problems in learning, our study compared a prospective risk sample of 18 elevated risk and 11 lower risk 24-month-olds on current vocabulary size and…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, At Risk Persons, Autism
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Arciuli, Joanne; Bailey, Benjamin – Journal of Child Language, 2019
In this exploratory study, we examined stress contrastivity within real word productions elicited via picture naming in 20 children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 20 typical peers group-wise matched on age and vocabulary. Targets had a dominant pattern of lexical stress beginning with a strong-weak pattern (SW: 'caterpillar',…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Suprasegmentals
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Arciuli, Joanne; Colombo, Lucia; Surian, Luca – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We investigated production of lexical stress in children with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD), all monolingual Italian speakers. The mean age of the 16 autistic children was 5.73 years and the mean age of the 16 typically developing children was 4.65 years. Picture-naming targets were five trisyllabic words that began with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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de Marchena, Ashley; Eigsti, Inge-Marie – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Deficits in pragmatic language are central to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here we investigate common ground, a pragmatic language skill in which speakers adjust the contents of their speech based on their interlocutor's perceived knowledge, in adolescents with ASD and typical development (TD), using an experimental narrative paradigm.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Norbury, Courtenay Frazier; Gemmell, Tracey; Paul, Rhea – Journal of Child Language, 2014
We aimed to disentangle contributions of socio-pragmatic and structural language deficits to narrative competence by comparing the narratives of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n=25), non-autistic children with language impairments (LI; n=23), and children with typical development (TD; n=27). Groups were matched for age (6½ to 15…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Story Telling, Children, Autism
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Rescorla, Leslie; Safyer, Paige – Journal of Child Language, 2013
For sixty-seven children with ASD (age 1;6 to 5;11), mean Total Vocabulary score on the Language Development Survey (LDS) was 65.3 words; twenty-two children had no reported words; and twenty-one children had 1-49 words. When matched for vocabulary size, children with ASD and children in the LDS normative sample did not differ in semantic category…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Vocabulary Development
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Bopp, Karen D.; Mirenda, Pat – Journal of Child Language, 2011
This study examined relationships between prelinguistic variables from the MacArthur-Bates CDI and the development of language comprehension and production in children with autism. Forty-four children were assessed at baseline and 6, 12, 24, 33 and 53 months later. Growth Curve Modeling was used to examine the extent to which three composite CDI…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Autism, Language Acquisition, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Hani, Hanady Bani; Gonzalez-Barrero, Ana Maria; Nadig, Aparna S. – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This study examined two facets of the use of social cues for early word learning in parent-child dyads, where children had an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or were typically developing. In Experiment 1, we investigated word learning and generalization by children with ASD (age range: 3;01-6;02) and typically developing children (age range:…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Vocabulary Development, Generalization
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Luyster, Rhiannon; Lopez, Kristina; Lord, Catherine – Journal of Child Language, 2007
Characterizing early communicative development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is valuable for understanding profiles of ability in this population. The current investigation was modeled on Charman, Drew, Baird & Baird (2003b). Analyses explored parent report of early vocabulary, non-verbal communication, functional object use and…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Play, Mental Age, Autism