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ERIC Number: EJ1478151
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jul
Pages: 38
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0364-0213
EISSN: EISSN-1551-6709
Available Date: 2025-07-07
The Development of Turn-Taking Skills in Typical Development and Autism
Riccardo Fusaroli1,2,3; Christopher Cox1,2; Ethan Weed1,2; Balázs István Szabó1; Deborah Fein4; Letitia Naigles4
Cognitive Science, v49 n7 e70082 2025
Social interaction depends on turn-taking and adapting to one's conversational partner, yet little is known about the typical and atypical development of these abilities. We investigated this in a longitudinal corpus of spontaneous speech in 64 parent-child dyads: 32 typically developing children (20.27 months at start, six girls, 24 White) and 32 with autism (linguistically matched, 32.76 months, four girls, 31 White). Contrary to prior studies, children with autism responded 189 ms faster on average than typically developing children due to more overlapping speech. Latency decreased in both groups (47-78 ms every 4 months) and depended on individual differences in socio-cognitive, linguistic, and motor skills, which for autism explained all variance by age. Both groups equally adapted their tempo to their interlocutors. With robust conceptualization and modeling techniques, we highlight the importance of overlapping speech, show that latencies in autism might be faster than in typical development and situate turn-taking into fine-grained developmental and interpersonal contexts.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University; 2Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University; 3Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania; 4Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut