Social Context Matters for Turn-Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children.

ABSTRACT: Engaging in fluent conversation is a surprisingly complex task that requires interlocutors to promptly respond to each other in a way that is appropriate to the social context. In this study, we disentangled different dimensions of turn-taking by investigating how the dynamics of child-adult interactions changed according to the activity (task-oriented vs. freer conversation) and the familiarity of the interlocutor (familiar vs. unfamiliar). Twenty-eight autistic children (16 male; Mage$M_{age}$  = 10.8 years) and 20 age-matched typically developing children (8 male; Mage$M_{age}$  = 9.6 years) participated in seven task-orientated face-to-face conversations with their caregivers (336 total conversations) and seven more telephone conversations alternately with their caregivers (144 total c

SUBMITTER: Cox C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12517399 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature