Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA.
J Child Lang. 2012 Jan;39(1):162-91. doi: 10.1017/S0305000911000043. Epub 2011 Jun 14.
Pronoun reversal, the use of you for self-reference and I for an addressee, has often been associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and impaired language. However, recent case studies have shown the phenomenon also to occur in typically developing and even precocious talkers. This study examines longitudinal corpus data from two children, a typically developing girl, and a boy with Asperger's syndrome. Both were precocious talkers who reversed the majority of their personal pronouns for several months. A comparison of the children's behaviors revealed quantitative and qualitative differences in pronoun use: the girl showed 'semantic confusion', using second person pronouns for self-reference, whereas the boy showed a discourse-pragmatic deficit related to perspective-taking. The results suggest that there are multiple mechanisms underlying pronoun reversal and provide qualified support for both the Name/Person Hypothesis (Clark, 1978; Charney, 1980b) and the Plurifunctional Pronoun Hypothesis (Chiat, 1982).
代词反转，即使用你指代自己，我指代听话者，这种现象通常与自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）和语言障碍有关。然而，最近的案例研究表明，这种现象也会出现在正常发育甚至早熟的说话者中。本研究通过对两个儿童（一个是正常发育的女孩，另一个是患有阿斯伯格综合征的男孩）的纵向语料库数据进行了研究。这两个孩子都在几个月的时间里将他们的大部分人称代词进行了反转。对孩子们行为的比较揭示了代词使用上的定量和定性差异：女孩表现出“语义混淆”，用第二人称代词指代自己，而男孩则表现出与视角转换相关的话语-语用缺陷。研究结果表明，代词反转有多种机制，并为名称/人物假说（Clark，1978；Charney，1980b）和多功能代词假说（Chiat，1982）提供了有条件的支持。
