ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2017
Statistical word learning in children with autism spectrum disorder and specific language impairment.
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- Visual statistical learning and social attention in neurotypical, minimally speaking and speaking autistic preschoolers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Aberrant Neural Entrainment to Word-Level Speech Patterns in Fragile X Syndrome: Evidence for a Statistical Learning Deficit.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Predictive Processing During Cue-Outcome Associative Learning in Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- The effect of volatility in linguistic input on prediction behavior in autistic toddlers.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Are Late Talkers Just Late? Neighborhood Density and Word Frequency Properties of Late Talkers' Spoken Vocabularies.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Statistical Learning Among Preschoolers With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: Examining Effects of Language Status, Age, and Prior Learning.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Dissociation Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Statistical Learning in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): similarities in pragmatic language abilities. A systematic review.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Review
- Semantic and Syntactic Predictions in Reading Aloud: Are Good Predictors Good Statistical Learners?Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- Language development, reading and word learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): a review on eye tracking studies.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Review
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backgroundWord learning is an important component of language development that influences child outcomes across multiple domains. Despite the importance of word knowledge, word-learning mechanisms are poorly understood in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study examined underlying mechanisms of word learning, specifically, statistical learning and fast-mapping, in school-aged children with typical and atypical development.
methodsStatistical learning was assessed through a word segmentation task and fast-mapping was examined in an object-label association task. We also examined children's ability to map meaning onto newly segmented words in a third task that combined exposure to an artificial language and a fast-mapping task.
resultsChildren with SLI had poorer performance on the word segmentation and fast-mapping tasks relative to the typically developing and ASD groups, who did not differ from one another. However, when children with SLI were exposed to an artificial language with phonemes used in the subsequent fast-mapping task, they successfully learned more words than in the isolated fast-mapping task. There was some evidence that word segmentation abilities are associated with word learning in school-aged children with typical development and ASD, but not SLI. Follow-up analyses also examined performance in children with ASD who did and did not have a language impairment. Children with ASD with language impairment evidenced intact statistical learning abilities, but subtle weaknesses in fast-mapping abilities.
conclusionsAs the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis (PDH) predicts, children with SLI have impairments in statistical learning. However, children with SLI also have impairments in fast-mapping. Nonetheless, they are able to take advantage of additional phonological exposure to boost subsequent word-learning performance. In contrast to the PDH, children with ASD appear to have intact statistical learning, regardless of language status; however, fast-mapping abilities differ according to broader language skills.
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