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  • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is linked to domain-general predictive ability impairments.
  • Difficulties in predicting event outcomes affect navigating dynamic environments in ASD.
  • The domain-specificity of these predictive deficits, particularly in language, remains under-researched.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate atypicalities in linguistic prediction in individuals with ASD.
  • To determine if predictive impairments extend to language processing in ASD.
  • To explore the relationship between autistic traits and linguistic prediction.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a cloze probability task to assess linguistic prediction in individuals with ASD and typically developing controls.
  • Experiment 1 involved an offline cloze task with 33 individuals with ASD and 64 controls.
  • Experiment 2 included a lab-based cloze task with 19 individuals with ASD and 22 controls, measuring voice onset time.

Main Results:

  • No significant difference in cloze probability between individuals with and without ASD.
  • Higher levels of autistic traits correlated with a tendency towards lower-probability (non-modal) cloze responses.
  • Individuals with ASD exhibited significantly slower voice onset times (~200 ms) compared to controls.

Conclusions:

  • Individuals with ASD demonstrate inefficiencies in linguistic prediction.
  • Specific autistic traits are associated with these linguistic prediction inefficiencies.
  • Slower speech production, indicated by voice onset time, is a notable finding in ASD.