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Bruggeman, Laurence; Millasseau, Julien; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Children with hearing loss (HL), including those with hearing aids (HAs) and cochlear implants (CIs), often have difficulties contrasting words like "beach" versus "peach" and "dog" versus "dock" due to challenges producing systematic voicing contrasts. Even when acoustic contrasts are present,…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
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Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Rattanasone, Nan Xu; Gao, Liqun; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Children with cochlear implants (CIs) face challenges in acquiring tonal languages, as CIs do not efficiently code pitch information. Mandarin is a tonal language with lexical tones and tonal processes such as neutral tone and tone sandhi, exhibiting contextually conditioned tonal realizations. Previous studies suggest that early…
Descriptors: Children, Assistive Technology, Preschool Children, Deafness