临床语音学视域下汉语自闭症儿童诗歌韵律研究

Prosodic features of Chinese autistic children in spontaneous poetry reading:From a clinical phonetics view

本研究采取临床语音学研究方法,将中国传统诗歌作为实验材料,从旋律和节奏两方面分析自闭症儿童诗歌朗读的声学表现。结果发现:(1)在旋律方面,自闭症儿童音高稳定性较差,音高变化受句法和语义的影响;(2)在节奏方面,自闭症儿童停顿数量多、韵律切分能力较差。本研究揭示了汉语自闭症儿童的韵律异常特点,为自闭症儿童的筛查和诊断提供语音学依据,为中国特色临床语音研究的发展探索可行路径。

Adopting the methods of clinical phonetics, this study took traditional Chinese poetry as experimental materials to analyze the prosodic performance of autistic children. The results showed that:(1) In terms of melody, autistic children had wider pitch range which could be influenced by syntactic and semantic features.(2) In terms of rhythm, autistic children read poems with more pauses and they had relatively poorer prosodic segmental ability. This study revealed the abnormal prosody characteristics of Chinese autistic children, providing phonetic evidence for ASD screening and diagnosis. Additionally, this study integrated clinical phonetics with Chinese traditional culture, promoting the development of China-featured clinical phonetics.