Paccia J M, Curcio F
J Speech Hear Res. 1982 Mar;25(1):42-7. doi: 10.1044/jshr.2501.42.
Several aspects of echolalic speech produced by five autistic children were investigated. We found that the incidence of echolalia was influenced by the type of question addressed to the child and, to a lesser extent, by the child's comprehension of the specific relationships expressed in the question. Additionally, acoustic analysis showed that a substantial proportion of echoes involved a prosodic modification of the examiner's question. Further analyses indicated that some of these modified echoes represent more than just a primitive conversational strategy. Specifically, they seem to reflect a higher level of processing and serve a semantic function, that of affirming the examiner's question.
对五名自闭症儿童产生的模仿言语的几个方面进行了调查。我们发现，模仿言语的发生率受向儿童提出的问题类型的影响，在较小程度上也受儿童对问题中表达的特定关系的理解的影响。此外，声学分析表明，相当一部分模仿言语涉及对检查者问题的韵律修改。进一步分析表明，其中一些经过修改的模仿言语不仅仅代表一种原始的对话策略。具体来说，它们似乎反映了更高层次的处理，并具有语义功能，即肯定检查者的问题。
