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@ARTICLE{Wehrle:1037612,
author = {Wehrle, Simon and Vogeley, Kai and Grice, Martine},
title = {{B}ackchannels in conversations between autistic adults are
less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically},
journal = {Language and cognition},
volume = {16},
number = {1},
issn = {1866-9808},
address = {Cambridge},
publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-00783},
pages = {108 - 133},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Backchannels (BCs; listener signals such as ‘mmhm’ or
‘okay’) are a ubiquitous and essentialfeature of spoken
interaction. They are used by listeners predominantly to
support theongoing turn of their interlocutor and to signal
understanding and agreement. Listenersseem to be highly
sensitive to the exact realisations of BCs and to judge
deviations fromtypical forms as negative. Very little is
known about the use of BCs by speakers diagnosedwith autism
spectrum disorder (ASD). In dialogue recordings of 28 German
adults in twogroups of disposition-matched dyads (i.e., both
interlocutors were either autistic or nonautistic),we found
that the ASD group was characterised by (1) a lower rate of
BCs perminute (particularly in the early stages of
conversation), (2) less diversity in the lexicalrealisation
of BCs and (3) a less diverse and flexible mapping of
different intonation contoursto different BC types. We
interpret these results as reflecting more general
characteristics ofautistic as compared to non-autistic
individuals, namely different strategies in
signallingattention towards an interlocutor and less
flexible behaviour in social interaction.},
cin = {INM-3},
ddc = {400},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406},
pnm = {5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability
(POF4-525) / DFG project 281511265 - SFB 1252: Prominenz in
Sprache (281511265)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251 / G:(GEPRIS)281511265},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001009572600001},
doi = {10.1017/langcog.2023.21},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1037612},
}