Perception of spectrally degraded reflexives and pronouns by children
| Autor: | Rolien Free, Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, Zheng Yen Ng, Deniz Başkent |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience (PCN), Science in Healthy Ageing & healthcaRE (SHARE) |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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COCHLEAR IMPLANTS medicine.medical_specialty Sound Spectrography Speech perception Acoustics and Ultrasonics Voice Quality SPOKEN LANGUAGE medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Audiology Speech Acoustics Young Adult NUMBER AGE Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Predictive Value of Tests Cochlear implant Perception LANGUAGE-ACQUISITION otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans CUES Simple speech Child SPEECH RECOGNITION media_common CHANNELS Speech Intelligibility Age Factors Language acquisition Comprehension Persons With Hearing Impairments Acoustic Stimulation Child Preschool DEAF-CHILDREN Speech Perception Normative Audiometry Speech Psychology NORMAL-HEARING Child Language Spoken language |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5), 3844-3852. ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.4824341 |
| Popis: | Speech perception skills in cochlear-implant users are often measured with simple speech materials. In children, it is crucial to fully characterize linguistic development, and this requires linguistically more meaningful materials. The authors propose using the comprehension of reflexives and pronouns, as these specific skills are acquired at different ages. According to the literature, normal-hearing children show adult-like comprehension of reflexives at age 5, while their comprehension of pronouns only reaches adult-like levels around age 10. To provide normative data, a group of younger children (5 to 8 yrs old), older children (10 and 11 yrs old), and adults were tested under conditions without or with spectral degradation, which simulated cochlear-implant speech transmission with four and eight channels. The results without degradation confirmed the different ages of acquisition of reflexives and pronouns. Adding spectral degradation reduced overall performance; however, it did not change the general pattern observed with non-degraded speech. This finding confirms that these linguistic milestones can also be measured with cochlear-implanted children, despite the reduced quality of sound transmission. Thus, the results of the study have implications for clinical practice, as they could contribute to setting realistic expectations and therapeutic goals for children who receive a cochlear implant. (C) 2013 Acoustical Society of America. |
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