Background and Aims Echolalia, the repetition of speech, is highly prevalent in school aged
children with Autism. Prior research has found that individuals with echolalia use their …

Natural speech plays a pivotal role in communication and interactions between human
beings. The prosody of natural speech, due to its high ecological validity and sensitivity, has …

This study investigated whether intonation deficits were observed in 19 Cantonese-speaking
adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) when compared to 19 matched neurotypical (NT) …

This study investigated the relationship between both receptive and expressive prosody and
each of three reading outcomes: accuracy of reading aloud words, accuracy of reading …

Lexical stress is the contrast between strong and weak syllables within words. Ballard et
al.(2012) examined the amount of stress contrastivity across adjacent syllables in word …

Prosodic awareness has been linked with reading accuracy in typically developing children.
Although children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have difficulty processing …

We examined whether typically developing Italian children exhibit adult-like stress
contrastivity for word productions elicited via a picture naming task (n= 25 children aged 3–5 …

In this exploratory study, we examined stress contrastivity within real word productions
elicited via picture naming in 20 children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 20 …

This study reports on a new task for assessing children's sensitivity to lexical stress for words
with different stress patterns and demonstrates that this task is useful in examining predictors …

We investigated production of lexical stress in children with and without autism spectrum
disorders (ASD), all monolingual Italian speakers. The mean age of the 16 autistic children …