Sounds of melody—Pitch patterns of speech in autism
Neuroscience letters, 2010•Elsevier
The objective of this study was to find a pattern in vocalizations of children with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We compared the intonational features of 15 children with ASD
who showed speech, aged 4–10 years, with 10 age-matched typically developing controls.
Exaggerated pitch, pitch range, pitch excursion and pitch contours were observed in speech
of children with autism, but absent in age-matched controls. These exaggerated features,
which are distinctive characteristics of motherese, were also seen in interactions of an …
Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We compared the intonational features of 15 children with ASD
who showed speech, aged 4–10 years, with 10 age-matched typically developing controls.
Exaggerated pitch, pitch range, pitch excursion and pitch contours were observed in speech
of children with autism, but absent in age-matched controls. These exaggerated features,
which are distinctive characteristics of motherese, were also seen in interactions of an …
The objective of this study was to find a pattern in vocalizations of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We compared the intonational features of 15 children with ASD who showed speech, aged 4–10 years, with 10 age-matched typically developing controls. Exaggerated pitch, pitch range, pitch excursion and pitch contours were observed in speech of children with autism, but absent in age-matched controls. These exaggerated features, which are distinctive characteristics of motherese, were also seen in interactions of an independent group of 8 mothers of typical infants using child-directed speech. Our findings provide the first evidence of a distinct pattern in vocal output from children with autism. They also demonstrate that speech patterns might follow a delayed developmental trajectory in these children.
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