[article]
| Titre : |
Autistic children's language imitation shows reduced sensitivity to ostracism |
| Type de document : |
Texte imprimé et/ou numérique |
| Auteurs : |
Zoë L. HOPKINS, Auteur ; Nicola YUILL, Auteur ; Holly P. BRANIGAN, Auteur |
| Article en page(s) : |
p.1929-1941 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Autism Spectrum Disorder/psychology Autistic Disorder Child Humans Imitative Behavior Language Ostracism Affiliation Alignment Autism Conversation Language imitation |
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
In dialogue, speakers tend to imitate, or align with, a partner's language choices. Higher levels of alignment facilitate communication and can be elicited by affiliation goals. Since autistic children have interaction and communication impairments, we investigated whether a failure to display affiliative language imitation contributes to their conversational difficulties. We measured autistic children's lexical alignment with a partner, following an ostracism manipulation which induces affiliative motivation in typical adults and children. While autistic children demonstrated lexical alignment, we observed no affiliative influence on ostracised children's tendency to align, relative to controls. Our results suggest that increased language imitation-a potentially valuable form of social adaptation-is unavailable to autistic children, which may reflect their impaired affective understanding. |
| En ligne : |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05041-5 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=476 |
in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 52-5 (May 2022) . - p.1929-1941
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Autistic children's language imitation shows reduced sensitivity to ostracism in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52-5 (May 2022)
