Past research has provided mixed evidence of the nature and difficulty with personal pronouns of children with autism spectrum disorder. No study to date has examined the nature of person‐reference in autism, more broadly, by looking at referential language both in terms of who is being referred to (self vs. other) and how (words with shifting reference: personal pronouns, vs. fixed reference: names and nouns). Furthermore, the role of linguistic input specifically in the domain of referential language in autism has not been investigated before. We collected natural language samples from parent–child interactions from children with autism (N = 38; 7 female) at three time points (age 2, 3, and 4 years) and administered a battery of standardized assessments to evaluate their language ability. The samples were transcribed and coded for person‐referential language. Children with autism used increasingly more pronouns both when referring to themselves and to their parent, but pronoun reversals were extremely rare. Their person‐reference use was associated with language ability only at age 2. Parental input was also characterized by an increase in pronoun use but only when referring to their child. Parents' and children's person‐reference were not associated across time, but they were concurrently related at age 3. Autism Res 2020, 13: 959‐969. © 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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自闭症谱系障碍中的个人参考：发展趋势和语言输入的作用。

过去的研究提供了自闭症谱系障碍儿童人称代词的性质和难度的混合证据。迄今为止，迄今为止，尚无研究通过从指称对象（自我称谓或他人称谓）以及如何称谓（指称转移的单词：人称代词，与固定参考：名称和名词）。此外，语言输入在自闭症中指称语言领域中的作用尤其尚未得到研究。我们从自闭症儿童（N= 38; 7个女性）在三个时间点（年龄分别为2、3和4岁）进行了一系列标准化评估，以评估其语言能力。样本被转录并以人为参照语言进行编码。自闭症儿童在指称自己和父母时都使用越来越多的代词，但是代词反转非常罕见。他们的个人参照使用仅在2岁时才与语言能力相关联。父母输入的特征还在于代词使用增加，但仅在提及他们的孩子时才如此。家长和孩子的人引用并没有跨越时间有关，但他们在3岁是在同时与自闭症水库2020年，13：959-969。©2019国际自闭症研究会，Wiley Periodicals，Inc.