Perception and Production of Pitch Information in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
This study investigated the categorical perception (CP) of linguistic pitch (lexical tones) and nonlinguistic pitch (pure tones), as well as tonal production in Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A total of 26 Mandarin-speaking children with ASD and 29 age-matched typic...
| Published in: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 1588 - 1606 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2026
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