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Prosodic Marking Of Focus In Autistic And Neurotypical Adults, Nishtha N. Trivedi
Prosodic Marking Of Focus In Autistic And Neurotypical Adults, Nishtha N. Trivedi
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Purpose: This study investigates how adult autistic speakers compare with neurotypical speakers in the manipulation of prosody to mark narrow and contrastive focus in American English. In particular, it explores whether the two groups differ in terms of pitch accent status, pitch accent type, and overall nuclear contour patterns in focus marking.
Methods: We conducted an experiment eliciting speech from autistic and neurotypical adults in which we compared their use of pitch accent in answers to wh-questions and in corrective statements.
Results: We found neurotypical speakers to primarily use H* to mark narrow focus on subjects and L+H* to mark …