The production of pronouns and verb inflections by Italian children with ASD
The language of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often characterized by difficulties with pronouns. The underlying reasons for such difficulties are still unclear. This study is the first to test the abilities of children with ASD who speak Italian, a language in which overt subject pronouns are optional but verbs obligatorily feature person-referencing morphology. We found that Italian children with ASD were less accurate than typically-developing (TD) Italian children in the production of first-, second-, and third-person singular pronouns, avoiding pronouns in favor of nouns or names more often than controls. Moreover, children with ASD produced more overt pronouns than null pronouns in marked contexts, compared to TD children. These phenomena can be accounted for by difficulties with pragmatics.
2020
2021-09-17 09:46:20
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autism, autism spectrum disorder, pronoun production, pronoun avoidance, language development
Greta
Mazzaggio
70
Aaron
Shield
70
COBISS_ID
3
76773123
UDK
4
81'23
ISSN pri Ĩlanku
9
1573-3432
DOI
15
10.1007/s10803-019-04349-7
NUK URN
18
URN:SI:UNG:REP:YSQSXALJ
10803_2019_4349_Author.pdf
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