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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Background:

  • Grammatical language development in autism often parallels that of typically developing children.
  • Traditional assessments of grammar rely on explicit verbal tasks, potentially missing nuanced abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate implicit grammatical gender representation in children with autism using Italian, a gendered language.
  • To determine which linguistic markers (lexical-semantic, phonological, syntactic) children use to infer grammatical gender implicitly.
  • To compare implicit grammatical processing in children with autism and typically developing children.

Main Methods:

  • An implicit categorization task was administered to assess the use of different grammatical markers.
  • Participants categorized animal images based on names varying in lexical-semantic, phonological, or syntactic cues.
  • Performance was compared between children with autism and typically developing controls.

Main Results:

  • Both groups showed similar patterns in marker categorization accuracy: lexical-semantic > phonological-syntactic > phonological > syntactic.
  • Children with autism demonstrated an advantage in grammatical gender representation using formal/grammatical markers compared to lexical/semantic ones.
  • Implicit assessment revealed nuanced linguistic representations not captured by traditional methods.

Conclusions:

  • Children with autism possess implicit grammatical gender representation abilities comparable to typically developing peers.
  • Formal grammatical markers may offer an advantage for grammatical gender processing in children with autism.
  • Implicit tasks provide valuable insights into the linguistic capabilities of children with autism.