Research on autistic children's use of prosody

• Project/Area Number: 23830028
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: MIURA Yui 金沢大学, 子どものこころの発達研究センター, 特任助教 (40612320)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 自閉症 / アイトラッキング / 自閉症スペクトラム障害 / プロソディー / 感情 / プロソディ / 社会的参照

Research Abstract

We explored autistic children’s understanding and use of prosody by using experimental methodologies. We found that children with ASD are hard to fixate their gaze at referential target or at speaker’s face immediately after hearing speech prosody. We also found that they have difficulty in controlling prosody to communicate their degree of certainty to others.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 特別な教育支援を必要とする児童に対する外国語活動の可能性 (2013)
  • Author(s): 物井尚子, 中山晃, 三浦優生
  • Journal Title: ことばと人間 Volume: 9 Pages: 127-143
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 特別な教育支援を必要とする児童に対する外国語活動の可能性 (2013)
  • Author(s): 物井 尚子
  • Journal Title: ことばと人間 Volume: 第9号 Pages: 127-143
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 自閉症研究と社会にまつわる多様な市民間の対話の試み (2013)
  • Author(s): 東島 仁
  • Journal Title: 科学技術コミュニケーション Volume: 11 Pages: 28-43
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Public opinions regarding the relationship between Autism Spectrum Disorders and society: social agenda construction via science cafe and public dialogue using questionnaires (2012)
  • Author(s): Higashijima, J., Y. Miura, C. Nakagawa, Y. Yamanouchi, K. Takahashi and M. Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Journal of Science Communication Volume: 11(04)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 自閉症研究と社会にまつわる多様な市民間の対話の試み (2012)
  • Author(s): 東島仁, 中川智絵, 山内保典, 三浦優生, 高橋可江, 中村征樹
  • Journal Title: 科学技術コミュニケーション Volume: 11 Pages: 28-43
  • NAID: 120005946662
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Public opinions regarding the relationship between Autism Spectrum Disorders and society: social agenda construction via science café and public dialogue using questionnaires (2012)
  • Author(s): Higashijima. J
  • Journal Title: Jounal of Science Commnication Volume: 11(04)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Cross- linguistic difference in children's sensitivity to speaker certainty: evidence from corpus and experimental data (2013)
  • Author(s): Miura, Y., Matsui, M., Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M
  • Organizer: 2013 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Washington State Convention Center (USA)
• [Presentation] 自閉症スペクトラム児における感情プロソディーの理解 (2013)
  • Author(s): 三浦優生, 松井智子, 藤野博, 東條吉邦, 長内博雄
  • Organizer: 日本発達心理学会第24回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 明治学院大学(東京都)
• [Presentation] 自閉症スペクトラム児における声色の理解 (2013)
  • Author(s): 三浦優生
  • Organizer: 金沢認知科学シンポジウム2013
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢大学(石川県)
• [Presentation] ASD children’s identification of face and referent from speaker’s affective voice (2013)
  • Author(s): Miura. Y
  • Organizer: The 10th International Autism-Europe Congress
  • Place of Presentation: Budapest Congress Center (Hungary)
• [Presentation] Enhancement of public awareness and advocacy of autism: An experimental program in XXanonymisedXX (2013)
  • Author(s): Oi. M
  • Organizer: The 10th International Autism-Europe Congress
  • Place of Presentation: Budapest Congress Center (Hungary)
• [Presentation] Cross- linguistic difference in children’s sensitivity to speaker certainty: evidence from corpus and experimental data (2013)
  • Author(s): Miura. Y
  • Organizer: 2013 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Washington State Caonvention Center (USA)
• [Presentation] 自閉症スペクトラム児における感情プロソディーの理解 (2013)
  • Author(s): 三浦 優生
  • Organizer: 日本発達心理学会第24回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 明治学院大学（東京都）
• [Presentation] 自閉症スペクトラム児における声色の理解 (2013)
  • Author(s): 三浦 優生
  • Organizer: 金沢認知科学シンポジウム2013
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢大学（石川県）
• [Presentation] Autistic children's sensitivity to vocal affect when finding the speaker's face and referent (2012)
  • Author(s): Miura, Y., Matsui, T., Fujino, H., Tojo, Y. & Osanai, H.
  • Organizer: The 14th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
  • Place of Presentation: University College Cork,Ireland
• [Presentation] Foreign language activities for Japanese students in special needs education (2012)
  • Author(s): Miura, Y., Nakayama, A., & Heffernan, N.
  • Organizer: Insights into Applied Linguistics: Languaging, Agency, and Ecologies
  • Place of Presentation: Summer School 2012: Insights into Applied Linguistics: Languaging, Agency, and Ecologies
• [Presentation] Autistic children’s sensitivity to vocal affect when finding the speaker’s face and referent (2012)
  • Author(s): Miura. Y
  • Organizer: The 14th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
  • Place of Presentation: University College Cork (Ireland)
• [Presentation] Foreign language activities for Japanese students in special needs education (2012)
  • Author(s): Miura. Y
  • Organizer: Summer School 2012: Insights into Applied Linguistics: Languaging, Agency, and Ecologies
  • Place of Presentation: University of Jyvaskyta (Finland)
• [Presentation] Autistic children's understanding of prosody : Evidence from eye-tracking (2011)
  • Author(s): Miura Y.
  • Organizer: Joint Academic Conference on Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Place of Presentation: 日本財団ビル(東京都)
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-02
• [Presentation] Autistic children's understanding of prosody: Evidence from eye-tracking (2011)
  • Author(s): Miura, Y., Matsui, T., Fujino, H., Tojo, Y. & Osanai, H.
  • Organizer: 日米自閉症スペクトラム研究会議
  • Place of Presentation: 日本財団ビル(東京都)
• [Presentation] Expression of feeling of knowing in the speech of autistic children (2011)
  • Author(s): Miura, Y., Matsui, T., Tojo, Y. & Osanai, H
  • Organizer: The 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language
  • Place of Presentation: Universite du Quebec a Montreal (Canada)
• [Presentation] How do children know speaker's knowledgeability from utterances? : findings from crosslinguistic and cross- clinical studies (2011)
  • Author(s): Miura, Y
  • Organizer: The 12thInternational Pragmatics Conference
  • Place of Presentation: University of Manchester (UK)
• [Presentation] How does Society sddress ELSI of autism?: Public engagement and agenda setting
  • Author(s): Nojima. N
  • Organizer: The 5th Annual Medicine and the Humanities
  • Place of Presentation: Sam Houston State University (USA)