ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2023
Comprehension of Prosodically and Syntactically Marked Focus in Cantonese-Speaking Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Prosodic Focus Effects on Covert "Only" Reading of Scalar Quantifiers in Autistic and Non-autistic Children Under Tonal Language Background.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Quantitative but Not Qualitative Differences: A Longitudinal Analysis of Grammatical Marker Development in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic Children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Prosodic marking of contrastive focus in Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Comprehension of Grammatical Structures in a Pediatric Population with ASD and Epilepsy: A Comparative Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Focus-marking in a tonal language: Prosodic differences between Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study investigated the comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus by 5- to 8-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children listened to question-answer dialogues while looking at pictures depicting the scenarios, and judged whether the answers were correct responses to the questions. The results showed that children with ASD exhibited typically developing (TD)-like performance in the use of syntactic cues to understand focus, although they were significantly slower than their TD peers. However, children with ASD had more difficulties than their TD peers in utilizing prosodic cues in focus comprehension. These findings suggest that the comprehension difficulties found in children with ASD are domain-selective, and children with ASD are sensitive to language-specific focus marking strategies.
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