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Production of Syllable Stress in Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
  • Rhea Paul, Sacred Heart University
  • Nancy Bianchi
  • Amy Augustyn
  • Ami Klin
  • Fred Volkmar
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Abstract

This paper reports a study of the ability to reproduce stress in a nonsense syllable imitation task by adolescent speakers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), as compared to typically developing (TD) age-mates. Results are reported for both raters’ judgments of the subjects’ stress production, as well as acoustic measures of pitch range and duration during stressed and unstressed syllable production. Results reveal small but significant differences between speakers with ASD and typical speakers in both perceptual ratings of stress and instrumental measures of duration of syllables. The implications of these findings for understanding prosodic deficits in ASD are discussed.

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Version posted is the NIH Public Access Author Manuscript.

Published in final edited form as:

Res Autism Spectr Disord. 2008 January 1; 2(1): 110–124. doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2007.04.001

DOI
10.1016/j.rasd.2007.04.001
Citation Information
Rhea Paul, Nancy Bianchi, Amy Augustyn, Ami Klin, et al.. "Production of Syllable Stress in Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorders" (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rhea_paul/17/