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  • Personal Pronoun errors in form versus meaning produced by children with and without autism spectrum disorder
    Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2021
    Co-Authors: Emily Zane, Sudha Arunachalam, Rhiannon J Luyster
    Abstract:

    The current study investigates whether the types of pronominal errors children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) make are different from those of their TD peers at similar stages of language development. A recent review about language acquisition in ASD by Naigles and Tek (2017) argues that these children show relative deficits in assigning/extending lexical meaning alongside relative strengths in morpho-syntax. Pronouns provide an ideal test case for this argument because they are marked both for grammatical features (case) and features that reflect qualities of the referent itself (gender and number) or the referent’s role in conversation (person). The form-meaning hypothesis predicts that children with ASD should struggle more with these latter features. The current study tests this hypothesis with data from a caregiver report, completed by caregivers of 151 children with and without ASD. Reported pronominal errors were categorized as meaning or form and compared across groups. In accordance with the form-meaning hypothesis, a higher proportion of children with ASD make meaning errors than they do form errors, and significantly more of them make meaning errors than TD children do.

  • Personal Pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs low risk for autism spectrum disorder
    Language, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rhiannon J Luyster, Sung Ju Hong, Sudha Arunachalam
    Abstract:

    Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to Personal Pronoun difficulties. This paper investigates maternal input as a potential contributing factor, focusing on an early developmental stage before ASD diagnosis. Using Quigley and McNally's (2013) corpus of maternal speech to infants (3-19 months; N = 19) who are either at high or low risk for a diagnosis of ASD (Quigley & McNally, 2013), we asked whether mothers used fewer Pronouns with high-risk infants. Indeed, high-risk infants heard fewer second-person Pronouns relative to their names than low-risk infants. We further investigated the contexts in which mothers were using infants' names. Our results indicated that mothers of high-risk infants often used the infants' names simply to get their attention by calling them. We suggest that high-risk infants may thus hear relatively fewer Pronouns because their mothers spend more time trying to get their attention. This may be related to differences in social-communicative behavior between low-risk and high-risk infants.

Rhiannon J Luyster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Personal Pronoun errors in form versus meaning produced by children with and without autism spectrum disorder
    Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2021
    Co-Authors: Emily Zane, Sudha Arunachalam, Rhiannon J Luyster
    Abstract:

    The current study investigates whether the types of pronominal errors children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) make are different from those of their TD peers at similar stages of language development. A recent review about language acquisition in ASD by Naigles and Tek (2017) argues that these children show relative deficits in assigning/extending lexical meaning alongside relative strengths in morpho-syntax. Pronouns provide an ideal test case for this argument because they are marked both for grammatical features (case) and features that reflect qualities of the referent itself (gender and number) or the referent’s role in conversation (person). The form-meaning hypothesis predicts that children with ASD should struggle more with these latter features. The current study tests this hypothesis with data from a caregiver report, completed by caregivers of 151 children with and without ASD. Reported pronominal errors were categorized as meaning or form and compared across groups. In accordance with the form-meaning hypothesis, a higher proportion of children with ASD make meaning errors than they do form errors, and significantly more of them make meaning errors than TD children do.

  • Personal Pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs low risk for autism spectrum disorder
    Language, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rhiannon J Luyster, Sung Ju Hong, Sudha Arunachalam
    Abstract:

    Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to Personal Pronoun difficulties. This paper investigates maternal input as a potential contributing factor, focusing on an early developmental stage before ASD diagnosis. Using Quigley and McNally's (2013) corpus of maternal speech to infants (3-19 months; N = 19) who are either at high or low risk for a diagnosis of ASD (Quigley & McNally, 2013), we asked whether mothers used fewer Pronouns with high-risk infants. Indeed, high-risk infants heard fewer second-person Pronouns relative to their names than low-risk infants. We further investigated the contexts in which mothers were using infants' names. Our results indicated that mothers of high-risk infants often used the infants' names simply to get their attention by calling them. We suggest that high-risk infants may thus hear relatively fewer Pronouns because their mothers spend more time trying to get their attention. This may be related to differences in social-communicative behavior between low-risk and high-risk infants.

Sung Ju Hong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Personal Pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs low risk for autism spectrum disorder
    Language, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rhiannon J Luyster, Sung Ju Hong, Sudha Arunachalam
    Abstract:

    Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to Personal Pronoun difficulties. This paper investigates maternal input as a potential contributing factor, focusing on an early developmental stage before ASD diagnosis. Using Quigley and McNally's (2013) corpus of maternal speech to infants (3-19 months; N = 19) who are either at high or low risk for a diagnosis of ASD (Quigley & McNally, 2013), we asked whether mothers used fewer Pronouns with high-risk infants. Indeed, high-risk infants heard fewer second-person Pronouns relative to their names than low-risk infants. We further investigated the contexts in which mothers were using infants' names. Our results indicated that mothers of high-risk infants often used the infants' names simply to get their attention by calling them. We suggest that high-risk infants may thus hear relatively fewer Pronouns because their mothers spend more time trying to get their attention. This may be related to differences in social-communicative behavior between low-risk and high-risk infants.

Takeshi Hamamura - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • changes in chinese culture as examined through changes in Personal Pronoun usage
    Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2015
    Co-Authors: Takeshi Hamamura
    Abstract:

    For the last several decades, Chinese society has experienced transformative changes in its social ecology. Is Chinese culture more individualistic today as a result? The current research examined this question by cross-temporally examining the usage of Chinese Personal Pronouns associated with individualism–collectivism. A Chinese corpus encompassing the period from 1950 to 2008 was analyzed using the Google Ngram Viewer. Cross-temporal changes in the usages of Personal Pronouns conceptually associated with individualism–collectivism were non-linear and highly similar to the patterns found for Pronouns and non-Pronoun words unassociated with individualism–collectivism. Follow-up analyses that disentangled these patterns indicated an increasing usage of individualistic Pronouns and a decreasing usage of collectivistic Pronouns in recent decades.

Chihua Hsiao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Personal Pronoun interchanges in mandarin chinese conversation
    Language Sciences, 2011
    Co-Authors: Chihua Hsiao
    Abstract:

    Abstract Dynamic and interactive uses of Personal Pronouns are usually not as neat as traditional grammar describes in that the first and second person Pronoun index speakers and addressees in a speech event. Devoted to a prevalent feature of Mandarin Chinese conversation—the switch of the first person singular Pronoun wo, “I”, and the second person singular Pronoun ni, “you”, this study explores why and how interlocutors go beyond traditional grammatical uses of the first person Pronoun wo, and the second person Pronoun ni by transposing their references in interaction. Taking conversation analysis and discourse analysis, the study focuses on syntactic properties and discourse functions of the interchanges in the micro-organization within conversation to illuminate how Personal Pronouns are employed to affect others’ perspectives in order to enhance interaction in subsequent utterances. The result shows that wo, “I”, for the second person Pronoun serves a communicative purpose by having speakers take the listeners’ perspective; on the other hand, ni, “you”, for the first person Pronoun is for information-providing purposes, which invites listeners to a subjective experience. Speakers involve their hearers to orient them to the co-construction of discourse through selections of the Personal Pronouns wo and ni.