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Autism language processing differs in Mandarin children

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Researchers have investigated how children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) process complex recursive language structures in Mandarin. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), the study compared 12 children with ASD to 12 typically developing children on a sentence-picture matching task. Findings indicated that children with ASD showed less efficient early predictive processing and syntactic reanalysis, leading to increased semantic integration demands compared to their typically developing peers. This suggests that temporal processing differences and neural variability play a significant role in language comprehension challenges within ASD. AI

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Autism language processing differs in Mandarin children

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaoyi Wang, Chenxi Fu, Ziman Zhuang, Caimei Yang ·

    An ERP Study on Recursive Locative Processing in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Autism

    arXiv:2606.05620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursion enables the generation of hierarchical linguistic structures but imposes substantial processing demands during real-time comprehension. While difficulties with complex syntax have been reported in autism spectrum disorder …

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