Communication in autistic individuals with limited spoken language
- Pecukonis, M., Butler, L. K., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2024). What role does the environment play in language development? Exploring the associations among socioeconomic status, parent language input, and language skills in school‐aged children with autism. Autism Research, Published online Nov 4, 2024.
- La Valle, C., Shen, L., Butler, L. K. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2024). Are minimally verbal autistic children’s modality and form of communication associated with parent responsivity? Autism Research, Published online May 1, 2024.
- Butler, L. K., Shen, L., La Valle, C., Chenausky, K. V., Schwartz, S. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2023). Lexical and morphosyntactic profiles of autistic youth with minimal or low spoken language skills. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(2), 733-747.
- Butler, L. K. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2022). Fine motor skill and expressive language in minimally verbal and verbal school-aged autistic children. Autism Research, 16(3), 630–641.
- Butler, L. K., La Valle, C., Liu, C., Palana, J. B., Schwartz, S., Peterman, N., Shen, L. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2022). Remote natural language sampling of parents and children with autism spectrum disorder: Role of activity and language level. Frontiers in Communication, 7, Published online May 10, 2022.
Brain imaging with functional near-infrared spectroscopy
- Butler, L. K., Pecukonis, M., Rogers, D., Tager-Flusberg, H., Boas, D. A., & Yücel, M. A. (2023). The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the production and comprehension of phonologically and semantically related words. Brain Sciences 13 (7), 1113.
- Girolamo, T., Butler, L., Canale, R., Aslin, R. N., & Eigsti, I.-M. (2023). fNIRS studies of individuals with speech and language impairment underreport sociodemographics: A systematic review. Neuropsychology Review, Published online Sept 25, 2023.
- Butler, L. K., Kiran, S., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2020). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in the study of speech and language impairment across the lifespan: A systematic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(3), 1674–1701.
Psycholinguistic studies of morphosyntactic variation in Yucatec Maya
- Butler, L. K. (2023). Morphological and conceptual factors in the real-time comprehension of optional plural marked sentences in Yucatec Maya. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.
- Butler, L. K. & Couoh Pool, R. M. (2018). Effects of education on the production of plural morphology among bilingual speakers of Yucatec Maya and Spanish. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8 (3), 283–319.
- Butler, L. K. (2012). Crosslinguistic and experimental evidence for non-Number plurals. Linguistic Variation 12 (1), 27–56.