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

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• dc.contributor.author Schroeder, Kristen
• dc.contributor.author Rosselló Ximenes, Joana
• dc.contributor.author Ribalta, Teresa
• dc.contributor.author Hinzen, Wolfram
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-06-27T07:01:38Z
• dc.date.available 2023-06-27T07:01:38Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract 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.
• dc.description.sponsorship The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded through the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [FFI2013-40526P] and the grant PID2019-105241GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 provided by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MCIU) and the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) of Spain.
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• dc.identifier.citation Schroeder K, Rosselló J, Ribalta Torrades T, Hinzen W. Linguistic markers of autism spectrum conditions in narratives: a comprehensive analysis. Autism Dev Lang Impair. 2023;8:15 p. DOI: 10.1177/23969415231168557
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23969415231168557
• dc.identifier.issn 2396-9415
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57371
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof Autism & Developmental Language Impairments. 2023;8:15 p.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2013-40526P
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-105241GB-I00
• dc.rights © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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• dc.subject.keyword ADOS
• dc.subject.keyword narrative
• dc.subject.keyword reference
• dc.subject.keyword language
• dc.subject.keyword grammar
• dc.title Linguistic markers of autism spectrum conditions in narratives: a comprehensive analysis
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