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Dear Editor,rnAutistic people often show enhanced pitch-processing skills involving complex tones and musical tones.How-ever,when it comes to tones that carry linguistic meaning such as lexical tones in tonal languages and speech intonation,they tend to d
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Key Laboratory of Brain,Cognition and Education Sciences,Ministry of Education,China;School of Psych
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Dear Editor,rnAutistic people often show enhanced pitch-processing skills involving complex tones and musical tones.How-ever,when it comes to tones that carry linguistic meaning such as lexical tones in tonal languages and speech intonation,they tend to display reduced discrimination sensitivity[1,2].One possible account for the striking contrast between linguistic and non-linguistic pitch pro-cessing is that the auditory system affected by autism might not be adequately specialized for the detection of linguistic structures in sounds[3,4].In other words,the linguistic pitch might not be as perceptually salient for autistic individuals as it is for neurotypical individuals.
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