This article reviews the current knowledge state on pragmatic and structural language
abilities in autism and their potential relation to extralinguistic abilities and autistic traits. The …

In this systematic review, we analyzed and evaluated the findings of studies on prosodic
features of vocal productions of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in order to …

Abstract The INTERSPEECH 2013 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge provides for
the first time a unified test-bed for Social Signals such as laughter in speech. It further …

In a sample of 46 children aged 4–7 years with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and
intelligible speech, there was no statistical support for the hypothesis of concomitant …

We investigate the value-add of topic modeling in text analysis for depression, and for
neuroticism as a strongly associated personality measure. Using Pennebaker's Linguistic …

Speech patterns are modulated by the emotional and neurophysiological state of the
speaker. There exists a growing body of work that computationally examines this modulation …

Linguistic prosody involves the rhythm and melody of speech. It implicitly enhances or
modifies the explicit meaning of spoken words. The literature on linguistic prosody related to …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between prosodic speech
cues and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) severity, hypothesizing a mutually interactive …

Purpose People with high-functioning autism (HFA) have qualitative differences in facial
expression and prosody production, which are rarely systematically quantified. The authors' …

We report on an automatic technique for quantifying two types of repetitive speech:
repetitions of what the child says him/herself (self‐repeats) and of what is uttered by an …