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Li Wang; Peter Q. Pfordresher; Cunmei Jiang; Fang Liu – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Vocal imitation in English-speaking autistic individuals has been shown to be atypical. Speaking a tone language such as Mandarin facilitates vocal imitation skills among non-autistic individuals, yet no studies have examined whether this effect holds for autistic individuals. To address this question, we compared vocal imitation of speech and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Singing, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Imitation
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Yu Chen; Ting Wang; Enze Tang; Hongwei Ding – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Neurotypical individuals show a robust "global precedence effect (GPE)" when processing hierarchically structured visual information. However, the auditory domain remains understudied. The current research serves to fill the knowledge gap on auditory global-local processing across the broader autism phenotype under the tonal…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Attention, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Mandarin Chinese
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Youran Lin; Karen E. Pollock; Fangfang Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study investigates how Mandarin-English bilingual students in Canada produce Mandarin tones and how this is influenced by factors such as tone complexity, cross-linguistic influences, and speech input. Method: Participants were 82 students enrolled in a Chinese bilingual program in Western Canada. Students were recruited from Grades…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Elementary School Students