Coarticulation facilitates lexical processing for toddlers with autism.

ABSTRACT: Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are delayed in learning language. The mechanisms underlying these delays are not well understood but may involve differences in how children process language. In the current experiment, we compared how 3- to 4-year-old children with ASD (n = 58) and 2- to 3-year-old children who are typically developing (TD, n = 44) use phonological information to incrementally process speech. Children saw pictures of objects displayed on a screen and heard sentences labeling one of the objects (e.g., Find the ball). For some sentences, the determiner the contained coarticulatory information about the onset of the target word. For other sentences, the determiner the did not contain any coarticulatory information. Children were faster to fixate the target ob

SUBMITTER: Pomper R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8324542 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature