Brief Report: Autistic Traits Predict Spectral Correlates of Vowel Intelligibility for Female Speakers.
Autism-spectrum quotient
Broad autism phenotype
Intelligibility
Pragmatic communication
Sex differences
Speech production
Journal
Journal of autism and developmental disorders
ISSN: 1573-3432
Titre abrégé: J Autism Dev Disord
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7904301
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2022
May 2022
Historique:
accepted:
14
05
2021
pubmed:
28
5
2021
medline:
23
4
2022
entrez:
27
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A growing body of research finds that neurotypical autistic traits are predictive of speech perception and language comprehension patterns, but considerably less is known about the influence of these traits on speech production. In this brief report, we present an analysis of vowel productions from 74 American English speakers who participated in a communicative speaking task. Results show higher autistic trait load to be broadly and inversely related to spectral correlates of vowel intelligibility. However, the statistical significance of this relationship is specific to autistic traits along the pragmatic communication dimension, and limited to female speakers.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34041683
doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05087-5
pii: 10.1007/s10803-021-05087-5
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2344-2349Subventions
Organisme : Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York
ID : 63281-00-51
Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Références
Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Skinner, R., Martin, J., & Clubley, E. (2001). The autism-spectrum quotient (AQ): Evidence from asperger syndrome/high-functioning autism, males, scientists and mathematicians. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31(1), 5–17. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005653411471
Becker, K., Wong, A. (2010). The short—a system of New York City english: An update. In: Kyle Gorman & Laurel MacKenzie (Eds.), University of Pennsylvania working papers in linguistics, 15(2), Article 3. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss2/1 . Accessed 21 May 2021
Bishop, J. (2017). Focus projection and prenuclear accents: Evidence from lexical processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32(2), 236–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1246745
Bishop, J., Kuo, G., & Kim, B. (2020). Phonology, phonetics, and signal-extrinsic factors in the perception of prosodic prominence: Evidence from rapid prosody transcription. Journal of Phonetics, 82, 100977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2020.100977
Boersma, P., Weenink, D. (2020). Praat: doing phonetics by computer [Computer program]. Version 6.1.16. Available at http://www.praat.org . Accessed 20 June 2020
Carl, M., Kent, R., Levy, E., & Whalen, D. (2020). Vowel acoustics and speech intelligibility in young adults with Down Syndrome. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(3), 674–687. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-19-00204
Cho, T., & Keating, P. (2009). Effects of initial position versus prominence in English. Journal of Phonetics, 37(4), 466–485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2009.08.001
Edwards, J., Beckman, M., & Fletcher, J. (1992). The articulatory kinematics of final lengthening. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 89(1), 369–382. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.400674
Frazier, T., Georgiades, S., Bishop, S., & Hardan, A. (2014). Behavioral and cognitive characteristics of females and males with autism in the Simons simplex collection. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(3), 329-340.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2013.12.004
Hurley, R., Losh, M., Parlier, M., Reznick, J., & Piven, J. (2007). The broad autism phenotype questionnaire. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(9), 1679–1690. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0299-3
Jouravlev, O., Kell, A., Mineroff, Z., Haskins, A., Ayyash, D., Kanwisher, N., & Fedorenko, E. (2020). Reduced language lateralization in autism and the broader autism phenotype as assessed with robust individual-subjects analyses. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2393 Published online 15 September, 2020.
Keating, P. (2006). Phonetic encoding of prosodic structure. In J. Harrington & M. Tabain (Eds.), Speech production: Models, phonetic processes, and techniques (pp. 167–186). Psychology Press.
Krüger, M., Cangemi, F., Vogeley, K., & Grice, M. (2018). Prosodic marking of information status in adults with autism spectrum disorders. In: K. Klessa, J. Bachan, A. Wagner, M. Karpiński & D. Śledziński (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody. (pp. 182–186). https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-37 . Accessed 21 May 2021
Lai, M.-C., Lombardo, M., Auyeung, B., Chakrabarti, B., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2015). Sex/gender differences and autism: Setting the scene for future research. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 54(1), 11–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2014.10.003
Mücke, D., & Grice, M. (2014). The effect of focus marking on supralaryngeal articulation—is it mediated by accentuation? Journal of Phonetics, 44, 47–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2014.02.003
Nieuwland, M., Ditman, T., & Kuperberg, G. (2010). On the incrementality of pragmatic processing: An ERP investigation of informativeness and pragmatic abilities. Journal of Memory and Language, 63(3), 324–346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2010.06.005
Patel, S., Nayar, K., Martin, G., Franich, K., Crawford, S., Diehl, J., & Losh, M. (2020). An acoustic characterization of prosodic differences in autism spectrum disorder and first-degree relatives. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 3032–3045. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04392-9
Turnbull, R. (2019). Listener-oriented phonetic reduction and theory of mind. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(6), 747–768. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1579349
Xiang, M., Grove, J., & Giannakidou, A. (2013). Dependency dependent interference: NPI interference, agreement attraction, and global pragmatic inferences. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00708
Yu, A. C. L. (2016). Vowel-dependent variation in Cantonese /s/ from an individual-difference perspective. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(4), 1672–1690. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4944992