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Skrimpa, Vasileia ORCID: 0000-0002-5633-7740, Spanou, Vasilina, Bongartz, Christiane, Peristeri, Eleni ORCID: 0000-0002-1151-677X, Andreou, Maria ORCID: 0000-0002-7867-3163 and Papadopoulou, Despina (2022). Bilingualism effects in pronoun comprehension: Evidence from children with autism. Autism Res., 15 (2). S. 270 - 284. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1939-3806

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Abstract

The prevalence of autism worldwide has risen steadily in the last two decades, while bilingualism is also becoming increasingly prevalent in today's rapidly globalizing world. The current study aimed to investigate bilingualism effects in the pronoun resolution skills of children with autism in comparison to age-matched monolingual children with autism, as well as monolingual and bilingual children of typical development (N= 20 participants per group). Results showed that autistic children had general difficulty anchoring ambiguous pronouns to entities that were linguistically expressed in discourse, yet, the bilingual children with autism were more sensitive to the topicality of the entities in syntactic subject position and more prone to identify them as suitable referents of ambiguous null pronouns as compared to their monolingual peers. The findings suggest that bilingualism is not detrimental to autistic children's pronoun resolution skills. The current study aimed at determining how bilingualism influences ambiguous pronoun comprehension in children with autism as compared to bilingual and monolingual children of typical development. The findings show that bilingualism was not detrimental to the autistic children's pronoun resolution skills, further suggesting that having acquired more than one language does not exacerbate autistic children's deficits in the comprehension of pronouns.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Skrimpa, Vasileia UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5633-7740 UNSPECIFIED Spanou, Vasilina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bongartz, Christiane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Peristeri, Eleni UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1151-677X UNSPECIFIED Andreou, Maria UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7867-3163 UNSPECIFIED Papadopoulou, Despina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-579507
DOI:	10.1002/aur.2634
Journal or Publication Title:	Autism Res.
Volume:	15
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 270 - 284
Date:	2022
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1939-3806
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SPECTRUM DISORDERS; LANGUAGE-DEVELOPMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS; YOUNG-CHILDREN; SPANISH; SLI; CONSEQUENCES; IMPAIRMENT; FLUENCY; TASKS Multiple languages Behavioral Sciences; Psychology, Developmental Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57950