Simon presented recent analyses of interactions between (German-speaking) autistic adults to 1) illustrate what appear to be typical features of prosody and conversation in autism, and 2) reflect on what these results and the methods used to uncover them can teach us about (research on) prosody.

Their results are very interesting with implications for phonological theory. Find the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (3/3)

Specifically, native listeners of the Bari variety of Italian, and German learners of Italian, rated the perceived prominence of object nouns in broad and narrow focus and post-focally using a visual analogue scale. (2/3)

The applications submitted for the first edition of the IPA PhD Thesis Award were of very high quality, and thus the task of the committee was extremely difficult. We congratulate the winner and all the other applicants for the high standards achieved. (2/2)

The authors have since, however, been in exchange about their research findings as part of a discussion forum for autistic adults, and in subsequent studies have started including the subjective experiences of autistic participants in their analyses and interpretation.

Hi Todd, unfortunately not, this study originated a few years ago and the authors were not able to ensure participatory research.

The paper is open-access and can be found here: frontiersin.org/journals/com... (5/5)

Overall, autistic participants relied more on gaze duration, and individual differences emerged across all groups, with distinct profiles for "Lookers," "Listeners," and "Neithers" showing varied preferences for gaze or pitch. (4/5)

This study used an eye-tracking 👁️experiment to explore how gaze duration 👀and pitch height 👄influenced judgments about object importance. (3/5)

How do autistic and non-autistic individuals interpret non-verbal social cues like eye gaze and speech intonation? This is the main question the authors answer in this paper. (2/5)

If you are in Marseille, you can join the workshop for free, otherwise, you can attend virtually. Program, abstracts and other information about the workshop can be found here: multimodalityinsocialinteractions20.wordpress.com 🧵(2/2)