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ArticleAutism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2025

Atypical Regional Accent in Autistic Children: A Perception Study.

Federica Beccaria, Gloria Gagliardi, Mikhail Kissine

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Article in Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Early manifestations of unexpected bilingualism in minimally verbal autism.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026
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Federica BeccariaACTE, LaDisco and ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Gloria GagliardiDepartment of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5257-1540
Mikhail KissineACTE, LaDisco and ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Funding

Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRSFonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autistic children are frequently said to speak with accents that markedly differ from those of their linguistic communities. To date, these anecdotal reports have never been tested or explained. We ran two perception studies using short audio recordings of autistic and typically developing children from the Campania region in Italy. The variety of Italian to which children are exposed in this region markedly differs from those spoken in the rest of Italy. Participant responses about the children's geographical origin show: (a) That autistic children's accent is devoid of the regional features of their community; (b) resembles the standard variety used in cartoons and child television programs. The judgments about children's accents are, furthermore, independent of the overall perception of speech atypicality. This paper shows that the accent of autistic children may diverge from that of their caregivers and peers because of the lasting influence of non-interactional, screen sources on their speech.

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Autistic DisorderSpeech PerceptionChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansItalyMale

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PMID39739894
PMCPMC11826007

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