He Angela Xiaoxue, Luyster Rhiannon, Hong Sung Ju, Arunachalam Sudha
Boston University, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
Emerson College, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
First Lang. 2018 Oct;38(5):520-537. doi: 10.1177/0142723718782634. Epub 2018 Jun 13.
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to personal pronoun difficulties. This paper investigates maternal input as a potential contributing factor, focusing on an early developmental stage before ASD diagnosis. Using Quigley and McNally's (2013) corpus of maternal speech to infants (3-19 months; N = 19) who are either at high or low risk for a diagnosis of ASD (Quigley & McNally, 2013), we asked whether mothers used fewer pronouns with high-risk infants. Indeed, high-risk infants heard fewer second-person pronouns relative to their names than low-risk infants. We further investigated the contexts in which mothers were using infants' names. Our results indicated that mothers of high-risk infants often used the infants' names simply to get their attention by calling them. We suggest that high-risk infants may thus hear relatively fewer pronouns because their mothers spend more time trying to get their attention. This may be related to differences in social-communicative behavior between low-risk and high-risk infants.
患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的儿童容易出现人称代词使用困难的问题。本文将母亲的语言输入作为一个潜在的影响因素进行研究，重点关注ASD诊断前的早期发育阶段。我们使用了奎格利和麦克纳利（2013年）收集的母亲对婴儿（3至19个月；N = 19）的言语语料库，这些婴儿被诊断为ASD的风险有高有低（奎格利和麦克纳利，2013年），我们研究母亲是否对高风险婴儿使用较少的代词。事实上，相对于低风险婴儿，高风险婴儿听到的第二人称代词相对于他们的名字更少。我们进一步研究了母亲使用婴儿名字的语境。我们的结果表明，高风险婴儿的母亲经常只是通过呼唤他们的名字来引起他们的注意。我们认为，高风险婴儿可能因此听到的代词相对较少，因为他们的母亲花更多时间试图引起他们的注意。这可能与低风险和高风险婴儿在社交沟通行为上的差异有关。
