Running Head: PROSODY PROCESSING IN AUTISM 1 The Use of Prosody During Syntactic Processing in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders Joshua John Diehl 1 Carlyn Friedberg 2 Rhea Paul 3 Jesse Snedeker 2 1 Center for Children and Families, Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, IN 2 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 3 Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Acknowledgements. We would like to thank the children and families who made this work possible. We are grateful to Heidi Miller, the Sonya Ansari Center for Autism at Logan (South Bend, IN), Lauren Berkovits, Daria Diakonova, Amanda Worek, Debra Loprete, Theresa Gorman, Michelle Won, Terri Sweeney, and Karen Tang for their contributions to this project, which included participant recruitment, data collection, manuscript review and data management. This paper was supported in part by the NIDCD Grant # K24 HD045576 awarded to Rhea Paul, and NICHD Grant # P01-HD03008 (Project 3). Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Joshua John Diehl, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, 118 Haggar Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Phone: (574) 631-1371. Fax: (574) 631-8883. Email: joshua.diehl@nd.edu.