Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brogden Hall 1202, West Johnson Street, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI, 53705, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 Aug;49(8):3351-3363. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04054-5.
This study investigated whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are sensitive to mispronunciations of familiar words and compared their sensitivity to children with typical-development. Sixty-four toddlers with ASD and 31 younger, typical controls participated in a looking-while-listening task that measured their accuracy in fixating the correct object when it was labelled with a correct pronunciation versus mispronunciation. A cognitive style that prioritizes processing local, rather than global features, as claimed by the weak central coherence theory, predicts that children with ASD should be more sensitive to mispronunciations than typical controls. The results, however, reveal no differences in the effect of mispronunciations on lexical processing between groups, even when matched for receptive language or non-verbal cognitive skills.
本研究调查了自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)儿童是否对熟悉单词的发音错误敏感,并将他们的敏感性与具有典型发育的儿童进行了比较。64 名自闭症谱系障碍儿童和 31 名年龄较小的典型对照组儿童参与了一项听看任务,该任务衡量了他们在听到正确发音与错误发音时准确注视正确物体的能力。一种认知风格,如弱中央连贯理论所主张的,优先处理局部而非整体特征,预测自闭症谱系障碍儿童应该比典型对照组儿童对发音错误更敏感。然而,结果显示,即使在接受性语言或非语言认知技能方面进行匹配,组间在词汇处理中发音错误的影响也没有差异。