Uh and um in autism: The case of hesitation marker usage in Dutch-speaking autistic preschoolers

IF 1.7 2区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI:10.1017/s0305000924000321

Marjolein Mues, Ellen Demurie, Maide Erdogan, Sarah Schaubroeck, Manon Krol, Amy Goodwin, Jan Buitelaar, Eva Loth, Herbert Roeyers

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Abstract

English-speaking autistic children use the hesitation marker um less often than non-autistic children but use uh at a similar rate. It is unclear why this is the case. We employed a sample of Dutch-speaking children from the Preschool Brain Imaging and Behavior Project to examine hesitation markers in autistic and non-autistic preschoolers with the aim to 1) make a crosslinguistic comparison of hesitation marker usage and 2) examine hypotheses regarding the underlying linguistic mechanisms of hesitation markers: the symptom hypothesis and the signal hypothesis. We found initial group differences in all hesitation markers but these results were rendered insignificant after controlling for age, sex and nonverbal cognition. We found significant correlations between hesitation marker usage and expressive and receptive language, but not autism traits. Lastly, we show interesting cross-linguistic differences in hesitation marker usage between Dutch-speaking participants and previously described English-speaking participants, such as a preference for um over uh.

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自闭症中的 "呃 "和 "嗯"：荷兰语自闭症学龄前儿童使用犹豫标记的情况

与非自闭症儿童相比，说英语的自闭症儿童使用犹豫标记 um 的频率较低，但使用 uh 的频率相似。目前还不清楚为什么会出现这种情况。我们从 "学前脑成像和行为项目"（Preschool Brain Imaging and Behavior Project）中抽取了讲荷兰语的儿童样本，研究自闭症和非自闭症学龄前儿童的犹豫标记，目的是：1）对犹豫标记的使用进行跨语言比较；2）研究有关犹豫标记潜在语言机制的假设：症状假设和信号假设。我们发现了所有犹豫标记的初始群体差异，但在控制了年龄、性别和非语言认知能力后，这些结果并不显著。我们发现犹豫标记的使用与表达性语言和接受性语言之间存在明显的相关性，但与自闭症特征无关。最后，我们还展示了荷兰语参与者与之前描述过的英语参与者在犹豫标记使用方面有趣的跨语言差异，例如，荷兰语参与者更倾向于使用 "嗯 "而不是 "呃"。

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Journal of Child Language Multiple-

CiteScore

4.70

自引率

4.50%

发文量

142

期刊介绍： A key publication in the field, Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behaviour in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. The international range of authors and breadth of coverage allow the journal to forge links between many different areas of research including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach spans a wide range of interests: phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, or any other recognised facet of language study.