Sounds of melody-Pitch patterns of speech in autism

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 478, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-45

  Sharda, Megha ^a   Subhadra, T Padma ^a   Sahay, Sanchita ^a   Nagaraja, Chetan ^a   Singh, Latika ^a   Mishra, Ramesh ^a   Sen, Amit ^b   Singhal, Nidhi ^c   Erickson, Donna ^d   Singh, Nandini C ^a  

^a NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b SITARAM BHARTIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c Action for Autism   (India)

^d Showa Music University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism; Intonation contours; Motherese; Pitch; Prosody; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MOTHER; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953542143     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.066     Document Type: Article

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