ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2022
Linguistic Tone and Non-Linguistic Pitch Imitation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation.
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- Using Pivotal Response Treatment to Improve Language Functions of Autistic Children in Special Schools: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Trial
- Unstable or Stable? Prosodic Features and Voice Quality in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Perception and Production of Pitch Information in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Prosodic marking of contrastive focus in Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Empowering Fathers: Effectiveness of Brief PRT Training for Bilingual Families of Libyan American Children with Autism to Enhance Communication Skills.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Atypical vocal imitation of speech and song in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from Mandarin speakers.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Early Auditory Temporal Processing Deficit in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Research Domain Criteria Framework.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Focus-marking in a tonal language: Prosodic differences between Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder.PloS one · 2024Article
- Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- Cross-linguistic patterns of speech prosodic differences in autism: A machine learning study.PloS one · 2022Article
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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.
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