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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2019 Aug 13;12(11):1663–1679. doi: 10.1002/aur.2176

Table 3.

Vocalization Feature Definitions

Vocalization Feature Definition
Volubility Number of speech syllables / length of audio clip in minutesa
Complexity Complexity Ratio: Number of canonical syllables / Total number of syllablesb
Complexity Status: Absence/presence of canonical syllables
Average Duration Average length in seconds of all speech syllables
Duration Range Difference between shortest and longest speech vocalization duration
Average Pitchc Average pitch in Hertz of all speech syllables
Pitch Rangec Difference between minimum and maximum speech vocalization pitch

Note.

c

Only Codability = No-Overlap vocalizations were used in calculating pitch variables.