Caregiver linguistic alignment to autistic and typically developing children: A natural language processing approach illuminates the interactive components of language development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Language development is a highly interactive activity. However, most research on linguistic environment has focused on the quantity and complexity of linguistic input to children, with current models showing that complexity facilitates language in both typically developing (TD) and autistic children.

Aims

After reviewing existing work on caregiver engagement of children's utterances, we aim to operationalize such engagement with automated measures of linguistic alignment, thereby providing scalable tools to assess caregivers' active reuse of their children's language. By assessing the presence of alignment, its sensitivity to the child's individual differences and how well it predicts language development beyond current models across the two groups, we showcase th

SUBMITTER: Fusaroli R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11223773 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature