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Publication Date: 2019-Jun
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Brief Report: Acoustic Evidence for Increased Articulatory Stability in the Speech of Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Kissine, Mikhail; Geelhand, Philippine
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v49 n6 p2572-2580 Jun 2019
Subjective impressions of speech delivery in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as monotonic or over-precise are widespread but still lack robust acoustic evidence. This study provides a detailed acoustic characterization of the specificities of speech in individuals with ASD using an extensive sample of speech data, from the production of narratives and from spontaneous conversation. Syllable-level analyses (30,843 tokens in total) were performed on audio recordings from two sub-tasks of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule from 20 adults with ASD and 20 pairwise matched neuro-typical adults, providing acoustic measures of fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer and the first three formants. The results suggest that participants with ASD display a greater articulatory stability in vowel production than neuro-typical participants, both in phonation and articulatory gestures.
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Speech Communication, Speech Skills, Acoustics, Syllables, Vowels, Phonology, Articulation (Speech)
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
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