Perkins Michael R, Dobbinson Sushie, Boucher Jill, Bol Simone, Bloom Paul
Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2006 Aug;36(6):795-805. doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0120-3.
One aspect of autistic language that has been infrequently researched is vocabulary and the conceptual knowledge underpinning individual words or word types. In this descriptive study we investigate anomalous vocabulary use in a 70,000-word corpus of conversational autistic language and examine evidence that concept formation, and hence vocabulary, is abnormal in autism. Particular attention is paid to the expression of artifact and temporal concepts which some believe may develop abnormally in autism. Little evidence is found of anomalous use of artifact terms, though errors with temporal (and also spatial) expressions are relatively common. We discuss why this may be and consider several potential explanations for why underlying lexical knowledge in autism may not necessarily be reflected in lexical use.
自闭症语言中一个较少被研究的方面是词汇以及支撑单个单词或单词类型的概念知识。在这项描述性研究中，我们调查了一个70000词的自闭症对话语言语料库中异常的词汇使用情况，并检验了自闭症中概念形成以及由此产生的词汇异常的证据。我们特别关注人工制品和时间概念的表达，一些人认为这些概念在自闭症中可能会异常发展。虽然发现人工制品术语异常使用的证据很少，但时间（以及空间）表达的错误相对常见。我们讨论了为什么会这样，并考虑了几个潜在的解释，说明为什么自闭症中的潜在词汇知识不一定会在词汇使用中体现出来。
