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Title: | Llinguistic tone and non-linguistic pitch imitation in children with autism spectrum disorders : a cross-linguistic investigation | Authors: | Chen, F Cheung, CCH Peng, G |
Issue Date: | May-2022 | Source: | Journal of autism and developmental disorders, May 2022, v. 52, no. 5, p. 2325-2343 | Abstract: | The conclusions on prosodic pitch features in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have primarily been derived from studies in non-tonal language speakers. This cross-linguistic study evaluated the performance of imitating Cantonese lexical tones and their non-linguistic (nonspeech) counterparts by Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking children with and without ASD. Acoustic analyses showed that, compared with typically developing peers, children with ASD exhibited increased pitch variations when imitating lexical tones, while performed similarly when imitating the nonspeech counterparts. Furthermore, Mandarin-speaking children with ASD failed to exploit the phonological knowledge of segments to improve the imitation accuracy of non-native lexical tones. These findings help clarify the speech-specific pitch processing atypicality and phonological processing deficit in tone-language-speaking children with ASD. | Keywords: | ASD Cantonese Imitation Lexical tone Mandarin Non-linguistic pitch |
Publisher: | Springer | Journal: | Journal of autism and developmental disorders | ISSN: | 0162-3257 | EISSN: | 1573-3432 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10803-021-05123-4 | Rights: | © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use (https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms), but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05123-4 |
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