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Havy, Melanie; Nazzi, Thierry; Bertoncini, Josiane – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2013
The present study explores phonetic processing in deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) when they have to learn phonetically similar words. Forty-six 34-to-78-month-old French-speaking deaf children with CIs were tested on 16 different trials. In each trial, they were first trained with two word-object pairings, and then a third object was…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, French
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Arbib, Michael A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2009
We first review the mirror-system hypothesis on the evolution of the language-ready brain, stressing the important role of imitation and protosign in providing the scaffolding for protospeech. We then assess the role of social interaction and non-specific knowledge of language in the emergence of new sign languages in deaf communities (focusing on…
Descriptors: Brain, Evolution, Language Processing, Role
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Schiavetti, Nicholas; Metz, Dale Evan; Whitehead, Robert L.; Brown, Shannon; Borges, Janie; Rivera, Sara; Schultz, Christine – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2004
This study investigated the acoustical and perceptual characteristics of vowels in speech produced during simultaneous communication (SC). Twelve normal hearing, experienced sign language users were recorded under SC and speech alone (SA) conditions speaking a set of sentences containing monosyllabic words designed for measurement of vowel…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Vowels