Linguistic Tone and Non-Linguistic Pitch Imitation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Fei; Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang; Peng, Gang
Titel	Linguistic Tone and Non-Linguistic Pitch Imitation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52 (2022) 5, S.2325-2343 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Chen, Fei) ORCID (Peng, Gang)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-021-05123-4
Schlagwörter	Intonation; Phonology; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Language Processing; Sino Tibetan Languages; Contrastive Linguistics; Accuracy; Tone Languages; Language Impairments; Mandarin Chinese; Native Language; Imitation; Speech Communication; Suprasegmentals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonologie; Autismus; Sprachverarbeitung; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Tonsprache; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01