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Predictive Language Processing in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study
Zhou, Peng; Zhan, Likan; Ma, Huimin
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, v48 n2 p431-452 Apr 2019
Sentence comprehension relies on the abilities to rapidly integrate different types of linguistic and non-linguistic information. The present study investigated whether Mandarin-speaking preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are able to use verb information predictively to anticipate the upcoming linguistic input during real-time sentence comprehension. 26 five-year-olds with ASD, 25 typically developing (TD) five-year-olds and 24 TD four-year-olds were tested using the visual world eye-tracking paradigm. The results showed that the 5-year-olds with ASD, like their TD peers, exhibited verb-based anticipatory eye movements during real-time sentence comprehension. No difference was observed between the ASD and TD groups in the time course of their eye gaze patterns, indicating that Mandarin-speaking preschool children with ASD are able to use verb information as effectively and rapidly as TD peers to predict the upcoming linguistic input.
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Processing, Eye Movements, Mandarin Chinese, Verbs, Linguistic Input, Prediction, Comprehension, Sentences
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