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Filled Pause Use in Autistic Adults and Their First-Degree Relatives: Gender Differences and Within-Family Associations.

Purpose: Prior research indicates that filled pauses (e.g., um and uh) are a marker of pragmatic language. Although pragmatic language features run in families of autistic individuals, it is not clear whether variation in filled pause production of autistic adults is also familial. It is also possib...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 11; pp. 5399 - 5414
Main Authors: Friedman, Laura, Maltman, Nell, Sterling, Audra, Hudock, Rebekah L., DaWalt, Leann Smith
Format: Article
Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Nov2025
Subjects:
Parents
Language & languages
Speech
Gender identity
Autism
Sex distribution
Parent-child relationships
Mothers
Families
Psycholinguistics
Fathers
Communication
Adults
Genetics of autism
Data analysis
Statistical significance
Research funding
Scientific observation
Questionnaires
Descriptive statistics
Physiological aspects of speech
Research bias
Statistics
Asperger's syndrome
Data analysis software
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