Meir Natalia, Novogrodsky Rama
Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
J Child Lang. 2023 Mar;50(2):215-244. doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000702. Epub 2021 Dec 1.
The current study evaluated the separate and combined effects of bilingualism and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on informativeness and definiteness marking of referential expressions. Hebrew-speaking monolingual children (21 with ASD and 28 with typical language development) and Russian-Hebrew-speaking bilingual children (13 with ASD and 30 with typical language development) aged 4-9 years participated. Informativeness, indexed by referential contrasts, was affected by ASD, but not by bilingualism. Definiteness use was non-target-like in children with ASD and in bilingual children, and it was mainly predicted by children's morpho-syntactic abilities in Hebrew. Language-universal and language-specific properties of referential use are discussed.
本研究评估了双语能力和自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）对指称表达的信息性和确定性标记的单独及联合影响。研究纳入了4至9岁的希伯来语单语儿童（21名患有ASD，28名语言发育正常）以及俄语-希伯来语双语儿童（13名患有ASD，30名语言发育正常）。以指称对比为指标的信息性受到ASD的影响，但不受双语能力的影响。确定性的使用在患有ASD的儿童和双语儿童中都不像目标群体那样，并且主要由儿童的希伯来语形态句法能力预测。文中讨论了指称使用的语言普遍性和语言特异性特征。
