Emotional and Lexical Prosody Recognition in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adolescents: Divergent Patterns of Performance

We compared emotional and lexical prosody recognition skills in 32 autistic (9 females; M_age = 16) and 54 non-autistic (25 females; M_age = 15) adolescents. Non-autistic youth were better at recognizing emotional prosody, whereas autistic youth performed better with lexical prosody, suggesting differential influences of autism on these prosodic functions.