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- Title
How do parents refer to their children while playing? A cross-linguistic comparison of parental input to Bulgarian- and English-speaking children with ASD.
- Authors
BAROKOVA, Mihaela D.; TAGER-FLUSBERG, Helen
- Abstract
Instances of person-reference, in the form of personal pronouns, names, or terms of endearment, are frequently used in child-directed speech. Examining this aspect of parental input is especially relevant to children with autism, who experience difficulties with person-reference. In this study, we compared the person-reference during parent-child interactions of Bulgarian (N=37) and English-speaking (N=37) parents of children with autism, who were matched on the language ability of their child. English-speaking parents used significantly more personal pronouns to refer to their children, while Bulgarian-speaking parents used the child's name more along with kinship terms. Furthermore, Bulgarian-speaking parents used significantly more different ways to refer to their child. These group differences were interpreted in the context of structural differences in the pronominal systems of Bulgarian and English, and in terms of culturally different discourse practices.
- Subjects
BULGARIA; STATISTICS; LINGUISTICS; BULGARIANS; MULTIPLE regression analysis; REGRESSION analysis; COMPARATIVE grammar; LANGUAGE acquisition; AUTISM; DISCOURSE analysis; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; INTRACLASS correlation; PARENT-child relationships; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis; NORTH Americans; PARENTS; VIDEO recording
- Publication
Journal of Child Language, 2023, Vol 50, Issue 2, p274
- ISSN
0305-0009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0305000921000842