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      Associations between syntax and the lexicon among children with or without ASD and language impairment.

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          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.

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          Journal
          J Autism Dev Disord
          Journal of autism and developmental disorders
          Springer Nature America, Inc
          1573-3432
          0162-3257
          Jan 2012
          : 42
          : 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Room 2 Speech and Hearing Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. karla-mcgregor@uiowa.edu
          Article
          NIHMS289932
          10.1007/s10803-011-1210-4
          3177980
          21365354
          cbe34475-2f25-44af-a7ec-4e5241ca77d9
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