Beyond pragmatics: Morphosyntactic development in autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1007-1023

  Eigsti, Inge Marie ^a,c   Bennetto, Loisa ^a   Dadlani, Mamta B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Language acquisition; Pragmatics; Syntax; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STANFORD-BINET TEST; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34250850273     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-006-0239-2     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the child behavior checklist/4-18 and 1991 profile. Burlington: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.
2. Adams, R., & Khoo, S. (1993). Quest, the interactive test analysis system. Melbourne: ACER.
3. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
4. Baltaxe, C., & D'Angiola, N. (1997). Cohesion in the discourse interaction of autistic, specifically language-impaired, and normal children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 22(1), 1-21.
5. Bartak, L., Rutter, M., & Cox, A. (1975). A comparative study of infantile autism and specific developmental language disorder: I. The children. British Journal of Psychiatry, 126, 127-145.
6. Bartolucci, G. (1982). Formal aspects of language in childhood autism. In Advances in child behavior analysis and therapy (Vol. 2, pp. 159-18). Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
7. Bartolucci, G., & Albers, R. J. (1974). Deictic categories in the language of autistic children. Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 19, 131-141.
8. Bartolucci, G., Pierce, S. J., & Streiner, D. (1980). Cross-sectional studies of grammatical morphemes in autistic and mentally retarded children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 10(1), 39-50.
9. Bates, E. (1997). Origins of language disorders: A comparative approach. Developmental Neuropsychology, 13(3), 447-476.
10. Bennetto, L., Pennington, B. F., & Rogers, S. J. (1996). Intact and impaired memory functions in autism. Child Development, 67, 1816-1835.
11. Bloom, L., Lahey, J., Hood, L., Lifter, K., & Fiess, K. (1980). Complex sentences: Acquisition of syntactic connectives and the semantic relations they encode. Journal of Child Language, 7, 235-261.
12. Bloom, L., Rocissano, L., & Hood, L. (1976). Adult-child discourse: Developmental interaction between information processing and linguistic knowledge. Cognitive Psychology, 8, 521-552.
13. Brown, R. (1973). A first language: The early stages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
14. Capps, L., Losh, M., & Thurber, C. (2000). The frog ate the bug and made his mouth sad": Narrative competence in children with autism. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 28(2), 193-204.
15. Carpentieri, S. C., & Morgan, S. B. (1994). Brief report: A comparison of patterns of cognitive functioning of autistic and nonautistic retarded children on the Stanford-Binet - Fourth Edition. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 24(2), 215-223.
16. Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic structures. In. The Hague: Mouton.
17. Cohen, J. (1960). A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 20, 37-46.
18. Condouris, K., Meyer, E., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2003). The relationship between standardized measures of language and measures of spontaneous speech in children with autism. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12(3), 349-358.
19. Cox, A., Charman, T., Baron-Cohen, S., Drew, A., Klein, K., Baird, G., et al. (1999). Autism spectrum disorders at 20 and 42 months of age: Stability of clinical and ADI-R diagnosis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40(5), 719-732.
20. Curcio, F., & Paccia, J. (1987). Conversations with autistic children: contingent relationships between features of adult input and children's response adequacy. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 17(1), 81-93.
21. Dahlgren, S. O., & Gillberg, C. (1989). Symptoms in the first two years of life: A preliminary population study of infantile autism. European Archives of Psychiatric and Neurological Science, 283, 169-174.
22. Dalgleish, B. (1975). Cognitive processing and linguistic reference in autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 5(4), 353-361.
23. de Villiers, J. G., & de Villiers, P. A. (1973). A cross-sectional study of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in child speech. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2, 267-278.
24. Demuth, K. (1996). Collecting spontaneous production data. In D. McDaniel, C. McKee, & H. Smith Cairns (Eds.), Methods for assessing children's syntax (pp. 3-22). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
25. Diehl, J. D., Bennetto, L., & Young, E. C. (2006). Story recall and narrative coherence of high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 87-102.
26. Dunn, L. M., & Dunn, L. M. (1997). Peabody picture vocabulary test-3. Circle Pines, MN: American Guidance Service.
27. Eigsti, I. M., & Bennetto, L. (2001). Syntactic and memory functions in young children with autism. San Diego, CA: Paper presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.
28. Fein, D., & Waterhouse, L. (1979). Autism is not a disorder of language. Boston, MA: Paper presented at the New England Child Language Association.
29. Fombonne, E. (1999). The epidemiology of autism: A review. Psychological Medicine, 29(4), 769-786.
30. Foster (1986). Learning discourse topic management in the preschool years. Journal of Child Language, 13, 231-250.
31. Fowler, A. E. (1980). A comparison of normal and retardate language equated on MLU. Boston, MA: Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.
32. Godber, T., Anderson, V., & Bell, R. (2000). The measurement and diagnostic utility of intrasubtest scatter in pediatric neuropsychology. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56(1), 101-112.
33. Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In P. Cole & J. Morgan (Eds.), Syntax and semantics (Vol. 3, pp. 41-58). NY: Academic Press.
34. Hermelin, B., & O'Connor, N. (1975). The recall of digits by normal deaf and autistic children. British Journal of Psychology, 66, 203-209.
35. Hoff-Ginsberg, E. (1991). Mother-child conversation in different social classes and communicative settings. Child Development, 62(4), 782-796.
36. Hollingshead, A. B. (1975). Four factor index of social status. New Haven, CT: Yale University Department of Sociology.
37. Howlin, P. (1984a). The acquisition of grammatical morphemes in autistic children: A critique and replication of the findings of Bartolucci, Pierce, and Streiner, 1980. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 14, 127-136.
38. Howlin, P. (1984b). The acquisition of grammatical morphemes in autistic children: a critique and replication of the findings of Bartolucci, Pierce, and Streiner, 1980. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 14(2), 127-136.
39. Howlin, P. (2003). Outcome in high-functioning adults with autism with and without early language delays: implications for the differentiation between autism and Asperger syndrome. Autism and Development Disorders, 33(1), 3-13.
40. Jarrold, C., Boucher, J., & Russell, J. (1997). Language profiles in children with autism: Theoretical and methodological implications. Autism, 1, 57-76.
41. Kaplan, E., Fein, D., Morris, R., & Delis, D. (1991). WAIS as a neuropsychological instrument (Manual). New York: Psychological Corporation.
42. Kelley, E., Paul, J., Fein, D., & Naigles, L. R. (2006). Residual language deficits in optimal outcome children with a history of autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34(1), 87-102.
43. Kjelgaard, M. M., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2001). An investigation of language impairment in autism: Implications for genetic subgroups. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16(2/3), 287-308.
44. Lawson, T. T., & Evans, L. D. (1996). Stanford-Binet: Fourth edition short forms with underachieving and learning disabled students. Psychological Reports, 79(1), 47-50.
45. Lord, C., Goode, S., Heemsbergen, J., Jordan, H., Mawhood, L., & Rutter, M. (1989). Autism diagnostic observation schedule: A standardized observation of communicative and social behavior. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 19, 185-212.
46. Lord, C., & Paul, R. (1997). Language and communication in autism. In D. J. Cohen & F. R. Volkmar (Eds.), Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders (2nd ed., pp. 195-225). New York: Wiley.
47. Lord, C., & Pickles, A. (1996). Language level and nonverbal social-communicative behaviors in autistic and language-delayed children. Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35(11), 1542-1550.
48. Lord, C., Rutter, M., & DiLavore, P. C. (1998). Autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.
49. Lord, C., Rutter, M., & LeCouteur, A. (1994). Autism diagnostic interview-revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 24, 659-685.
50. MacWhinney, B. (1991). The CHILDES Database. Dublin, OH: Discovery Systems.
51. MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing talk (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
52. Marcus, G., Pinker, S., Ullman, M., Hollander, M., Rosen, T., & Xu, F. (1992). Over-regularization in language acquisition. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 57(4), 1-182.
53. Mottron, L. (2004). Matching strategies in cognitive research with individuals with high-functioning autism: Current practices, instrument biases, and recommendations. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34(1), 19-27.
54. Ozonoff, S., & Miller, J. (1996). An exploration of right-hemisphere contributions to the pragmatic impairments of autism. Brain and Language, 52(3), 411-434.
55. Prior, M. R., & Hall, L. C. (1979). Comprehension of transitive and intransitive phrases by autistic, retarded, and normal children. Journal of Communication Disorders, 12, 103-111.
56. Prizant, B., & Duchan, J. (1981). The functions of immediate echolalia in autistic children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorder, 46, 241-249.
57. Rapin, I. (1991). Autistic children: Diagnosis and clinical features. Pediatrics, 87(5), 751-760.
58. Rapin, I., & Dunn, M. (2003). Update on the language disorders of individuals on the autistic spectrum. Brain and Development, 25(3), 166-172.
59. Rubino, R. B., & Pine, J. M. (1998). Subject-verb agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: What low error rates hide. Journal of Child Language, 25(1), 35-59.
60. Rumsey, J. M., Duara, R., Grady, C., Rapoport, J. L., Margolin, R. A., Rapoport, S. I., et al. (1985). Brain metabolism in autism: Resting cerebral glucose utilization rates as measured with positron emission tomography. Archives of General Psychiatry, 42(5), 448-455.
61. Rutter, M. (1970). Autistic children: Infancy to adulthood. Seminars in Psychiatry, 2, 435-450.
62. Rutter, M., Mawhood, L., & Howlin, P. (1992). Language delay and social development. In P. Fletcher & D. Hall (Eds.), Specific speech and language disorders in children: Correlates, characteristics, and outcomes (pp. 63-78). London: Whurr.
63. Sattler, J. M. (1992). Assessment of children: Revised and updated third edition. San Diego, CA: Jerome M. Sattler, Inc.
64. Scarborough, H. (1990). Index of productive syntax. Applied Psycholinguistics, 11, 1-22.
65. Scarborough, H., Rescorla, L., Tager-Flusberg, H., Fowler, A., & Sudhalter, V. (1991). Relation of utterance length to grammatical complexity in normal or language-disordered groups. Applied Psycholinguistics, 12, 23-45.
66. Seidenberg, M. S., & MacDonald, M. C. (1999). A probabilistic constraints approach to language acquisition and processing. Cognitive Science, 23(4), 569-588.
67. Shriberg, L. D., Paul, R., McSweeny, J. L., Klin, A. M., Cohen, D. J., & Volkmar, F. R. (2001). Speech and prosody characteristics of adolescents and adults with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome. Journal of Speech and Language Hearing Research, 44(5), 1097-1115.
68. Stone, W., & Yoder, P. (2001). Predicting spoken language level in children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism, 5(4), 341-361.
69. Szatmari, P., Bryson, S., Boyle, M., Streiner, D., & Duku, E. (2003). Predictors of outcome among high functioning children with autism and Asperger syndrome. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44(4), 520-528.
70. Tager-Flusberg, H., & Anderson, M. (1991). The development of contingent discourse ability in autistic children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 32(7), 1123-1134.
71. Tager-Flusberg, H., & Calkins, S. (1990). Does imitation facilitate acquisition of grammar? Evidence from the study of autistic, Down's syndrome and normal children. Journal of Child Language, 17, 591-606.
72. Tager-Flusberg, H., Calkins, S., Nolin, T., Baumberger, T., Anderson, M., & Chadwick-Dias, A. (1990). A longitudinal study of language acquisition in autistic and Down syndrome children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 20(1), 1-21.
73. Thorndike, R. L., Hagen, E. P., & Sattler, J. M. (1986). The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition. Chicago, IL: Riverside Publishing.
74. Volden, J., & Lord, C. (1991). Neologisms and idiosyncratic language in autistic speakers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 21, 109-130.
75. Wanska, S. K., & Bedrosian, J. L. (1986). Topic and communicative intent in mother-child discourse. Journal of Child Language, 13(3), 523-535.