AI Article Synopsis
- The study explores how children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) process language incrementally, focusing on their understanding of verbs in sentences.
- It compares young children with varying language skills using semantically-constraining verbs (like "read") versus neutral verbs (like "find").
- Results indicate that children with better receptive language skills benefit more from semantically-constraining contexts, showing similarities to typical development pathways.
Article Abstract
In typical development, listeners can use semantic content of verbs to facilitate incremental language processing-a skill that is associated with existing language skills. Studies of children with ASD have not identified an association between incremental language processing in semantically-constraining contexts and language skills, perhaps because participants were adolescents and/or children with strong language skills. This study examined incremental language processing and receptive language in young children with ASD with a range of language skills. Children showed a head start when presented with semantically-constraining verbs (e.g., Read the book) compared to neutral verbs (e.g., Find the book). Children with weaker receptive language showed a smaller head start than children with stronger receptive language skills, suggesting continuity between typical development and ASD.
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