Online Processing of Grammatical Aspect in Subsamples of Preschool Mandarin-acquiring Autistic Children.
Grammatical comprehension remains a strength in English-acquiring autistic preschoolers, yet limited studies have examined how autistic children process grammatical constructions in real time, in any language. This study sought to characterize the online processing of grammatical aspect in a diverse...
| Published in: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 7; pp. 2851 - 2867 |
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Jul2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=195184732&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 195184732 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01623257 AUT jtl: Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders issn: 01623257 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2026 vid: 56 iid: 7 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 195184732 183314365 195184732 195184732 10.1007/s10803-025-06758-3 195184732 ppf: 2851 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Online Processing of Grammatical Aspect in Subsamples of Preschool Mandarin-acquiring Autistic Children. aug: au: Xie, Qian-Qian Su, Yi affil: https://ror.org/00xsfaz62 School of Foreign Languages, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China sug: subj: Autism Spectrum Disorder Psychosocial Factors Language Processing Evaluation Grammar Evaluation Readability Vocabulary Internet Human Male Female Child, Preschool Child Funding Source China Two-Way Analysis of Variance Repeated Measures T-Tests Interrater Reliability Descriptive Statistics Psycholinguistics Eye Movement Measurements Questionnaires Child, Preschool: 2-5 years Child: 6-12 years Male Female ab: Grammatical comprehension remains a strength in English-acquiring autistic preschoolers, yet limited studies have examined how autistic children process grammatical constructions in real time, in any language. This study sought to characterize the online processing of grammatical aspect in a diverse sample of Mandarin-acquiring autistic children. Forty-six 3–6-year-old autistic children, further divided into high (N = 23) and low verbal subgroups (N = 23) based on their expressive vocabulary levels, were assessed via Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL). Children viewed side-by-side renditions of the same event, one of which was ongoing, while the other was completed, paired with familiar verbs with the perfective aspect le or the durative aspect zhe. Both high and low verbal autistic groups demonstrated robust comprehension of le and zhe. Similar to TD children, autistic children in each group showed processing facilities upon the initial presentation of the zhe test audio, but they may be less efficient at le processing. Moreover, the comprehension degree of grammatical aspect correlated negatively with their autism severity scores for the total autistic group; the processing efficiency correlated positively with the production of grammatical aspect for the total and low verbal autistic groups. The findings confirm the strength of processing grammatical aspect in subsamples of preschoolers with autism spanning a wide range of language functioning, suggesting that young autistic group across languages could surmount at least some challenges of aspect acquisition, such as delayed expressive language skills and pragmatic deficits. Additionally, the influencing factors provided insight into the informing intervention strategies that are optimally, developmentally timed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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