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Iris Hindi, Natalia Meir
(2026).
Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive.
Journal of Child Language, 53(2), 343-364.
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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20 Jan 2025
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10.1017/s0305000924000540
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Iris Hindi,
Natalia Meir
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- Journal of Child Language
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- 53(2), 343-364
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- article
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- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Abstract
Abstract This study is one of the few research efforts investigating unexpected non-interactive foreign language acquisition in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Participants included 46 English-Hebrew-speaking children (ages 4;10 to 12;0): 14 autistic children who acquired English via non-interactive input (ASD-NI); 12 autistic children (ASD-Nat), and 20 non-autistic children with typical language development (TLD-Nat) who acquired English and Hebrew naturalistically. Morpho-syntactic abilities were assessed using Sentence Repetition tasks in both languages. The results showed no group differences for morpho-syntax in English; in Hebrew, the ASD-NI group scored similarly to the ASD-Nat group but lower than the TLD-Nat group. Individual performance differences between Hebrew and English were observed across all groups. Additionally, correlations between exposure and SRep scores were found in both groups for Hebrew but not English. These findings highlight diverse paths to language acquisition in ASD, with children acquiring foreign languages via both naturalistic and non-interactive input.
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