@article{87c16f68a360467e94827f3e9f4a4343,
title = "Associations between syntax and the lexicon among children with or without ASD and language impairment",
abstract = "Five groups of children defined by presence or absence of syntactic deficits and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) took vocabulary tests and provided sentences, definitions, and word associations. Children with ASD who were free of syntactic deficits demonstrated age-appropriate word knowledge. Children with ASD plus concomitant syntactic language impairments (ASDLI) performed similarly to peers with specific language impairment (SLI) and both demonstrated sparse lexicons characterized by partial word knowledge and immature knowledge of word-to-word relationships. This behavioral overlap speaks to the robustness of the syntax-lexicon interface and points to a similarity in the ASDLI and SLI phenotypes.",
keywords = "Autism, Lexicon, Specific language impairment, Syntax",
author = "McGregor, {Karla K.} and Berns, {Amanda J.} and Owen, {Amanda J.} and Michels, {Sarah A.} and Dawna Duff and Bahnsen, {Alison J.} and Melissa Lloyd",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments We thank the participants and their families for their generosity. The first author gratefully acknowledges the support of NIH-NIDCD 2 R01 DC003698 together with an augmentation award from Autism Speaks. Some of the data in this paper were presented on May 2, 2008 at the Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences Workshop on Word Learning, Iowa City, IA. Funding Information: On the ADOS the mean score of the ASD group was 13.21 (SD = 3.94) whereas the mean score of the ASDLI was somewhat higher (poorer) at 15.00 (SD = 4.22), t = -1.20, df = 29, p = .24. Subjects with ASD and ASDLI were recruited with assistance from the Interactive Autism Network Research Database at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Medicine—Baltimore, sponsored by the Autism Speaks Foundation.",
year = "2012",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1007/s10803-011-1210-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "42",
pages = "35--47",
journal = "Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders",
issn = "0162-3257",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "1",
}