Purpose: Autistic individuals often face challenges perceiving and expressing emotions, potentially stemming from differences in speech prosody. Here we explore how autism diagnoses between groups, and measures of social competence within groups may be related to, first, children's speech characteristics (both prosodic features and amount of…

This cross-sectional study examines the sociopragmatic use of pitch and fluency features in requests among second language (L2) Chinese learners at two proficiency levels alongside native Chinese speakers. Twenty-eight L2 learners completed a 40-item oral discourse task with two types of request-making situations: (a) a high-imposition request to…

Kindergarten principals' ethical leadership, preschool teachers' perceived organizational support, voice behavior, and work engagement are important components that promote high-quality development in kindergartens. In order to understand the relationship between the four variables, this study conducted an online survey of 819 preschool teachers.…