Acoustic analysis of intonation styles in young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2023
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Dates
- 2023
Creator
- Kim, Boram (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Use
The thesis is restricted due to FERPA, permission from the author is required before you can view the thesis.
Extent
48 pages (48 pages)
Language of Materials
From the record group: English
From the record group: Chinese
From the record group: Spanish; Castilian
Overview
"This paper focused on measuring intonation styles in spontanous [sic] speech produced by young children (age 4-7) with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Wiggliness and Spaciousness metrics and discrete cosine transform (DCT) were applied for analyses. The results revealed that the ASD group exhibited larger values in both Wiggliness and Spaciousness metrics compared to a typically developing (TD) group. The DCT result indicated that the ASD group demonstrated higher values in decomposed cosine waves. These results suggest that the the ASD group used more melodic intonation styles compared to the TD group. Due to small dataset size, further research with larger smaple [sic] size is warranted. Findings of the current study will extend the acoustic analysis of pitch contours to the realm of clinical prosody research and enrich the understanding of the prosodic characteristics of autistic speakers." -- Abstract
Physical Location
RG 010.02B Communication Sciences & Disorders
Physical Description
48 pages
Repository Details
Part of the Emerson College Archives and Special Collections Repository
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