Language level predicts perceptual categorization of complex reversible events in children

Hinzen, Wolfram; Peinado, Elisa; Perry, Scott James; Schroeder, Kristen; Lombardo, Mariana

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09933

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“…Aside from being more complex in terms of lexical and grammatical aspect, the choice of specific VP types could therefore be cognitively revealing: an event that is perceptually identical can still be conceptualized differently, as revealed through either static or dynamic verbalizations and the different forms of linguistic complexity involved in these. Conceptualizing visually presented events, from a certain level of complexity onwards, can be cognitively highly challenging for children of young chronological or verbal mental ages ( Hinzen et al, 2022 ; see also de Villiers, 2014 ; Shukla & de Villiers, 2021 ). VP types were therefore included in our annotation scheme.…”

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Linguistic markers of autism spectrum conditions in narratives: A comprehensive analysis

Schroeder

Rosselló

Torrades³

et al. 2023

Autism & Developmental Language Impairments

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Background & Aims: Narratives are regularly elicited as part of standardized assessments for autism spectrum conditions (ASC) such as the ADOS, but have rarely been utilized as linguistic data in their own right. We here aimed for a specific and comprehensive quantitative linguistic profile of such narratives across nominal, verbal, and clausal domains of grammatical organization, and error patterns. Methods: We manually transcribed and annotated narratives elicited from the ADOS from a sample of bilingual autistic Spanish-Catalan children ( n = 18), matched with typically developing controls (n = 18) on vocabulary-based verbal IQ. Results: Results revealed fewer relative clauses and more frequent errors in referential specificity and non-relational content-word choice in ASC. Frequent error types are also discussed qualitatively. Conclusions & Implications: These findings, based on more finegrained linguistically defined variables, help to disentangle previous inconsistencies in the literature, and to better situate language changes in the spectrum of neurocognitive changes in this population.

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Linguistic markers of autism spectrum conditions in narratives: A comprehensive analysis

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Torrades³

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Autism & Developmental Language Impairments

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Testing the Continuum/Spectrum Model in Russian-Speaking Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

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Lezzhova,

Dragoy

et al. 2024

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: Previously, Lancaster and Camarata (2019) showed that the continuum/spectrum model of the developmental language disorder (DLD) best explained the high heterogeneity of symptoms in children with DLD. We hypothesize that the continuum/spectrum approach can include not only children with DLD but also typically developing (TD) children with different timelines and patterns of language acquisition. This model can explain individual language profiles and deficits in children. Method: We assessed language abilities in a group of Russian-speaking children with DLD aged 4–7 years ( n = 53) and their age- and gender-matched peers without speech and language diagnoses ( n = 53, TD). We evaluated the children's performance at four language levels in production and comprehension domains, using 11 subtests of the standardized language assessment for Russian: Russian Child Language Assessment Battery (RuCLAB). Using the k -means cluster method and RuCLAB scores, we obtained two clusters of children and analyzed their language performance in individual subtests. Results: The analysis revealed that the two clusters of children both included DLD and TD participants: Group 1, with higher test scores (TD = 45, DLD = 24 children), and Group 2, with lower scores (TD = 8, DLD = 29). Children from Group 1 mostly had lower scores at one of the language levels, whereas those from Group 2 struggled at several language levels. Furthermore, children with DLD from both groups tended to be more sensitive to linguistic features such as word length, noun case, and sentence reversibility compared to TD children. Conclusions: The presence of two mixed groups shows that children with diagnosed DLD could perform on par with TD children, whereas some younger TD children could perform similarly to children with DLD. Our findings support the continuum/spectrum model: Linguistic skills in preschool children are a continuum, varying from high to poor skills at all language levels in comprehension and production. To describe a child's language profile, the tasks assessing all language levels should be used. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.25521400

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Language level predicts perceptual categorization of complex reversible events in children

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Linguistic markers of autism spectrum conditions in narratives: A comprehensive analysis

Linguistic markers of autism spectrum conditions in narratives: A comprehensive analysis

Testing the Continuum/Spectrum Model in Russian-Speaking Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

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