Top

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Gepubliceerd in:

01-05-2015 | Original Paper

The Use of Grammatical Morphemes by Mandarin-Speaking Children with High Functioning Autism

Auteurs: Peng Zhou, Stephen Crain, Liqun Gao, Ye Tang, Meixiang Jia

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 5/2015

Abstract

The present study investigated the production of grammatical morphemes by Mandarin-speaking children with high functioning autism. Previous research found that a subgroup of English-speaking children with autism exhibit deficits in the use of grammatical morphemes that mark tense. In order to see whether this impairment in grammatical morphology can be generalised to children with autism from other languages, the present study examined whether or not high-functioning Mandarin-speaking children with autism also exhibit deficits in using grammatical morphemes that mark aspect. The results show that Mandarin-speaking children with autism produced grammatical morphemes significantly less often than age-matched and IQ-matched TD peers as well as MLU-matched TD peers. The implications of these findings for understanding the grammatical abilities of children with autism were discussed.

vorige artikel The Influence of Task Difficulty and Participant Age on Balance Control in ASD

volgende artikel Comparing Diagnostic Outcomes of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 Criteria

Alleen toegankelijk voor geautoriseerde gebruikers

Williams et al. (2008) reanalysed Roberts et al.’s data and made a case against Roberts et al.’s claim that impairments in tense marking in autism resemble those observed in SLI.

One reviewer correctly pointed out that though –le was used in these echolalic responses, this does not reflect a productive capacity to use this morpheme. In fact, the finding that the participants who produced the zuo-le structure always used the perfective morpheme –le provided further evidence attesting to the echolalic nature of their responses, because these participants were adhering to the exact verb forms they heard.

To date there are no standardised tests that can be used to assess Mandarin-speaking children’s language development.

American Psychiatric Association (APA). (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th Edn, text revision (DSM-IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.CrossRef

Bartolucci, G., & Albers, R. J. (1974). Deictic categories in the language of autism children. Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 4, 131–141.CrossRefPubMed

Bartolucci, G., Pierce, S. J., & Streiner, D. (1980). Cross-sectional studies of grammatical morphemes in autism and mentally retarded children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 10, 39–49.CrossRefPubMed

Boucher, J. (2000). Time parsing, normal language acquisition, and language-related developmental disorders. In M. Perkins & S. Howard (Eds.), New directions in language development and disorders (pp. 13–23). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.CrossRef

Boucher, J. (2001). ‘Lost in a sea of time’: time-parsing and autism. In C. Hoerl & T. McCormack (Eds.), Time and memory (pp. 111–135). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Boucher, J. (2012). Research review: Structural language in autism spectrum disorder—Characteristics and causes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 219–233.CrossRefPubMed

Chao, Y.-R. (1968). A grammar of spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Cheung, H. (2005). The use of aspect markers in Mandarin-speaking children with specific language impairment. Berlin: Paper presented at the Xth ICSCL.

Cleland, J., Gibbon, F., Peppé, S., O’hare, A., & Rutherford, M. (2010). Phonetic and phonological errors in children with high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12, 69–76.CrossRefPubMed

Comrie, B. (1976). Aspect: An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Diehl, J. J., Friedberg, C., Paul, R., & Snedeker, J. (2014). The use of prosody during syntactic processing in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Development and Psychopathology. doi:10.1017/S0954579414000741.

Eigsti, I. M., Bennetto, L., & Dadlani, M. B. (2007). Beyond pragmatics: morphosyntactic development in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1007–1023.CrossRefPubMed

Erbaugh, M. (1978). Acquisition of temporal and aspectual distinctions in Mandarin. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 15, 30–37.

Fletcher, P., Leonard, L. B., Stokes, S. F., & Wong, A. M.-Y. (2005). The expression of aspect in cantonese-speaking children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 621–634.CrossRefPubMed

Gong, Y. X., & Dai, X. Y. (1992). Chinese-wechsler young children scale of intelligence (C-WYCSI). Changsha, Hunan: Map Press.

Howlin, P. (1984). The acquisition of grammatical morphemes in autism children: a critique and replication of the findings of Bartolucci, Pierce, and Streiner, 1980. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 14, 127–136.CrossRefPubMed

Howlin, P., Mawhood, L., & Rutter, M. (2000). Autism and developmental receptive language disorder—A follow-up comparison in early adult life II: social, behavioural, and psychiatric outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 561–578.CrossRefPubMed

Kjelgaard, M., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2001). An investigation of language profiles in autism: Implications for genetic subgroups. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 287–308.CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed

Leonard, L. B., Bortolini, U., Caselli, M. C., McGregor, K. K., & Sabbadini, L. (1992). Morphological deficits in children with specific language impairment: the status of features in the underlying grammar. Language Acquisition, 2, 151–179.CrossRef

Leonard, L. B., & Deevy, P. (2010). Tense and aspect in sentence interpretation by children with specific language impairment. Journal of Child Language, 37, 395–418.CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed

Leonard, L. B., Deevy, P., Kurtz, R., Krantz Chorev, L., Owen, A., Polite, E., et al. (2007). Lexical aspect and the use of verb morphology by children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 759–777.CrossRefPubMed

Li, C., & Thompson, S. (1981). Mandarin Chinese: A functional reference grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lord, C., & Paul, R. (1997). Language and communication in autism. In D. J. Cohen & P. R. Volkmar (Eds.), Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders (2nd ed., pp. 195–225). New York: Wiley.

Lord, C., Rutter, M., DiLavore, P. C., & Risi, S. (1999). Autism diagnostic observation schedule. Los Angeles, CA: Western Psychological Services.

Loukusa, S., & Moilanen, I. (2009). Pragmatic inference abilities in individuals with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. A review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 3, 890–904.CrossRef

Mawhood, L., Howlin, P., & Rutter, M. (2000). Autism and developmental receptive language disorder—A comparative follow-up in early adult life I: Cognitive and language outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 547–559.CrossRefPubMed

McCann, J., & Peppé, S. (2003). Prosody in autism spectrum disorders: a critical review. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 38, 325–350.CrossRefPubMed

Paul, R., Augustyn, A., Klin, A., & Volkmar, F. (2005). Perception and production of prosody by speakers with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 35, 205–220.CrossRefPubMed

Peppé, S., McCann, J., Gibbon, F., O’Hare, A., & Rutherford, M. (2007). Receptive and expressive prosodic ability in children with high-functioning autism. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 1015–1028.CrossRefPubMed

Perkins, M. R., Dobbinson, S., Boucher, J., Bol, S., & Bloom, P. (2006). Lexical knowledge and lexical use in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 795–805.CrossRefPubMed

Rapin, I., & Dunn, M. (2003). Update on the language disorders of individuals on the autistic spectrum. Brain and Development, 25, 166–172.CrossRefPubMed

Rapin, I., Dunn, M., Allen, D., Stevens, M., & Fein, D. (2009). Subtypes of language disorders in school-age children with autism. Developmental Neuropsychology, 34, 66–84.CrossRefPubMed

Rice, M., & Wexler, K. (1996). Toward tense as a clinical marker of specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 39, 1236–1257.CrossRef

Rice, M., Wexler, K., & Cleave, P. L. (1995). Specific language impairment as a period of extended optional infinitive. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 239–257.

Rice, M., Wexler, K., & Hershberger, S. (1998). Tense over time: The longitudinal course of tense acquisition in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 41, 1412–1431.CrossRef

Roberts, J., Rice, M., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2004). Tense marking in children with autism. Applied Psycholinguistics, 25, 429–448.CrossRef

Rutter, M. (1968). Concepts of autism: A review of research. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 9, 1–25.CrossRefPubMed

Smith, C. S. (1991). The parameter of aspect. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.CrossRef

Stokes, S. F., & Fletcher, P. (2003). Aspectual forms in Cantonese children with specific language impairment. Linguistics, 41, 381–406.CrossRef

Tager-Flusberg, H. (1999). A psychological approach to understanding the social and language impairments in autism. International Review of Psychiatry, 11, 325–334.CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed

Tager-Flusberg, H. (2006). Defining language phenotypes in autism. Clinical Neuroscience Research, 6, 219–224.CrossRef

Tager-Flusberg, H., & Cooper, J. (1999). Present and future possibilities for defining a phenotype for specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42, 1275–1278.CrossRefPubMed

Tager-Flusberg, H., & Joseph, R. M. (2003). Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes in autism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 358, 303–314.CrossRef

Tomblin, B. (2011). Co-morbidity of autism and SLI: kinds, kin and complexity. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 46, 127–137.CrossRef

Violette, J., & Swisher, L. (1992). Echolalic responses by a child with autism to four experimental conditions of sociolinguistic input. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35, 139–147.CrossRefPubMed

Williams, D., Botting, N., & Boucher, J. (2008). Language in autism and specific language impairment: where are the links? Psychological Bulletin, 134, 944–963.CrossRefPubMed

Yang, S.-Y. (1995). The aspectual system of Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Victoria, Canada.

Titel: The Use of Grammatical Morphemes by Mandarin-Speaking Children with High Functioning Autism
Auteurs: Peng Zhou
Stephen Crain
Liqun Gao
Ye Tang
Meixiang Jia
Publicatiedatum: 01-05-2015
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 5/2015
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2304-6

Andere artikelen Uitgave 5/2015

Cortical Variability in the Sensory-Evoked Response in Autism

Original Paper

Brief Report: Autistic Traits in Mothers and Children Associated with Child’s Gender Nonconformity

Brief Report

It’s About Time for Autism Reform Legislation in Utah

Letter to the Editor

Impaired Overt Facial Mimicry in Response to Dynamic Facial Expressions in High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

Original Paper

The Social Skills and Attachment to Dogs of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Original Paper

Validation of the Developmental, Dimensional and Diagnostic Interview (3Di) Among Chinese Children in a Child Psychiatry Clinic in Hong Kong

Original Paper