Purpose: In tonal languages such as Chinese, the processing of lexical tone and speech intonation inevitably interact due to their shared reliance on fundamental frequency (F0). However, the developmental trajectory of this interaction remains unclear. The present study aimed to examine the development and maturation of online tone--intonation…

As an information-bearing auditory attribute of sound, pitch plays a crucial role in the perception of speech and music. Studies examining pitch processing in autism spectrum disorder have produced equivocal results. To understand this discrepancy from a mechanistic perspective, we used a novel data-driven method, the reverse-correlation paradigm,…

This work presents an analysis of the intonation competence in a group of Italian children with cochlear implant (CI). Early cochlear implantation plays a crucial role in language development for children who were born deaf in that it favours the acquisition of complex aspects of language, such as the intonation structure. A story-generation task,…