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  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is often associated with language and communication deficits.
  • Understanding the specific linguistic processing differences in autism is crucial for targeted interventions.

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  • To investigate grammatical and lexical processing in high-functioning autism.
  • To compare the production of regular and irregular past-tense verb forms in boys with and without autism.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative study design involving boys with autism and typically developing controls.
  • Analysis of past-tense verb production accuracy and reaction times.
  • Focus on rule-governed (regular) versus lexically-dependent (irregular) past-tense forms.

Main Results:

  • No significant differences in accuracy or error rates were found between groups.
  • Boys with autism demonstrated significantly faster production of rule-governed past-tense forms.
  • No significant difference in speed for lexically-dependent past-tense forms was observed.

Conclusions:

  • The findings suggest atypical grammatical processing in autism, specifically in rule-governed language production.
  • This pattern resembles findings in Tourette syndrome, implicating similar frontal/basal-ganglia circuits.
  • Language processing and/or underlying brain structures may be atypical in autism, even when overt language skills appear normal.