Spoken word recognition in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment

Loucas, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8130-6690, Riches, N., Baird, G., Pickles, A., Simonoff, E., Chandler, S. and Charman, T. (2013) Spoken word recognition in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics, 34 (2). pp. 301-322. ISSN 1469-1817 doi: 10.1017/S0142716411000701

Abstract/Summary

Spoken word recognition, during gating, appears intact in specific language impairment (SLI). This study used gating to investigate the process in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders plus language impairment (ALI). Adolescents with ALI, SLI, and typical language development (TLD), matched on nonverbal IQ listened to gated words that varied in frequency (low/high) and number of phonological onset neighbors (low/high density). Adolescents with ALI required more speech input to initially identify low-frequency words with low competitor density than those with SLI and those with TLD, who did not differ. These differences may be due to less well specified word form representations in ALI.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Interdisciplinary centres and themes > ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) Research Network Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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