Hurtig R, Ensrud S, Tomblin J B
J Autism Dev Disord. 1982 Mar;12(1):57-69. doi: 10.1007/BF01531674.
Six children diagnosed as autistic and who also were reported to be using questions inappropriately in their conversations with adults were each placed in a conversational context in which the adult responses to their questions were systematically varied. The dependent variable was the occurrence and amount of appropriate conversational continuation associated with each type of adult response. Differential listener response did affect the occurrence of conversational continuation and to a lesser degree the amount of continuation. These data were interpreted to support the hypothesis that repetitive questioning in this population serves the communicative function of conversation initiation. Furthermore, it appears that the autistic conversants lack the conversational management skills to maintain the conversation following the listener's answer to the question.
六名被诊断为自闭症的儿童，据报告他们在与成年人交谈时也不恰当地使用问题，他们每人都被置于一种对话情境中，在这种情境中，成年人对他们问题的回答会有系统地变化。因变量是与每种类型的成年人回答相关的适当对话延续的发生情况和数量。不同的倾听者反应确实影响了对话延续的发生，在较小程度上也影响了延续的数量。这些数据被解释为支持这样一种假设，即这一群体中的重复性提问起到了开启对话的交际功能。此外，似乎自闭症交谈者缺乏在倾听者回答问题后维持对话的对话管理技能。
