(Loveland & Tunali, 1991) or resort to impoverished message repair strategies such as merely repeating a previously ambiguous statement (Baltaxe, 1977). When interpreting statements from others, children with autism often fail to use a speaker’s intonation to determine whether the speaker is ...
Moreover, gaze following also supports infants’ mapping of novel words to the object that the speaker is looking at [41,57]. On the other hand, paying attention to the mouth of a talking face can also be useful for enhancing speech processing and infant language acquisition (e.g., [58...