Superior discrimination of speech pitch and its relationship to verbal ability in autism spectrum disorders
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Superior discrimination of speech pitch and its relationship to verbal ability in autism spectrum disorders.
Whilst hypersensitivity to pitch information appears to be characteristic of many individuals with autism spectrum disorders little is known about the implications of such a tendency for language acquisition and development. Discrimination of systematically varied pitch differences between pairs of words, nonwords, and nonspeech pitch contour analogues was assessed in children with autism spect...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Neuropsychology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0264-3294,1464-0627
DOI: 10.1080/02643290802336277