Abstract
The current study evaluated the separate and combined effects of bilingualism and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on informativeness and definiteness marking of referential expressions. Hebrew-speaking monolingual children (21 with ASD and 28 with typical language development) and Russian-Hebrew-speaking bilingual children (13 with ASD and 30 with typical language development) aged 4-9 years participated. Informativeness, indexed by referential contrasts, was affected by ASD, but not by bilingualism. Definiteness use was non-target-like in children with ASD and in bilingual children, and it was mainly predicted by children's morpho-syntactic abilities in Hebrew. Language-universal and language-specific properties of referential use are discussed.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 215-244 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | Journal of Child Language |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 1 Dec 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Mar 2023 |
Keywords
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Child
- Hebrew
- Humans
- Language
- Language Development
- Language Tests
- Multilingualism
- definiteness
- informativeness
- referential expressions
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Language and Linguistics
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Linguistics and Language
- General Psychology