Prosodic Focus Effects on Covert "Only" Reading of Scalar Quantifiers in Autistic and Non-autistic Children Under Tonal Language Background.
Previous research on prosodic focus comprehension in non-autistic children has yielded inconsistent results, often attributing their difficulties to the presence of the word "only". However, studies on autistic children's understanding of focus are limited and often methodologically rigid. This stud...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 9; pp. 3612 - 3629 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2026
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