Table 1. Outline of Hypotheses.
Task | Hypotheses | |
Word Segmentation Task | TD & ASD1 > SLI | TD = ALN; ALI > SLI; ALN = ALI1 |
Fast-Mapping Task | TD & ASD > SLI | TD = ALN; ALI = SLI; ALN > ALI2 |
Combination Task | TD & ASD > SLI; Word > Nonword | TD = ALN; ALI > SLI; ALN = ALI |
Note
Following work by Järvinen-Pasley, Wallace, Ramus, Happé, and Heaton (2008).
Following work by McGregor, Berns, Owen, Michels, Duff, Bahnsen, and Lloyd (2012). TD = typical development, ALN = ASD with normal language, ALI = ASD with language impairment.