The relationship between form and function level receptive prosodic abilities in autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1328-1340

  Järvinen Pasley, Anna ^a,b   Peppé, Susan ^c   King Smith, Gavin ^c   Heaton, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Language; Perception; Prosody; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; GRAMMAR; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILING ELEMENTS OF PROSODIC SYSTEMS IN CHILDREN; PROSODY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 48149098610     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-007-0520-z     Document Type: Article

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