openalexFrontiers in Psychology2026-07-24
Prosodic marking of contrastive focus in Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder
Jinting Yan, Chen Kuang, Xiao Liang, Xinquan Sun, F N Chen
Introduction Prosodic focus marking plays a central role in conveying information structure, yet little is known about how Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use acoustic cues to signal contrastive focus in a tonal language. Methods Prosodic focus mark…