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Jia Hoong Ong; Chen Zhao; Alex Bacon; Florence Yik Nam Leung; Anamarija Veic; Li Wang; Cunmei Jiang; Fang Liu – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Previous studies reported mixed findings on autistic individuals' pitch perception relative to neurotypical (NT) individuals. We investigated whether this may be partly due to individual differences in cognitive abilities by comparing their performance on various pitch perception tasks on a large sample (n = 164) of autistic and NT children and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Auditory Perception, Intonation, Cognitive Ability
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Hao Zhang; Xuequn Dai; Wen Ma; Hongwei Ding; Yang Zhang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study builds upon an established effective training method to investigate the advantages of high variability phonetic identification training for enhancing lexical tone perception and production in Mandarin-speaking pediatric cochlear implant (CI) recipients, who typically face ongoing challenges in these areas. Method: Thirty-two…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Phonetics, Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries
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Rhee, Nari; Chen, Aoju; Kuang, Jianjing – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Using a semi-spontaneous speech corpus, we present evidence from computational modelling of tonal productions from Mandarin-speaking children (4- to 11-years old) and adults, showing that children exceed the adult-level tonal distinction at the age of 7 to 8 years using F0 cues, but do not reach the high adult-level distinction using spectral cues…
Descriptors: Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Cues, Auditory Perception
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Flaherty, Mary M.; Buss, Emily; Libert, Kelsey – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Maturation of the ability to recognize target speech in the presence of a two-talker speech masker extends into early adolescence. This study evaluated whether children benefit from differences in fundamental frequency (f[subscript o]) contour depth between the target and masker speech, a cue that has been shown to improve recognition in…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
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Yang, Ying; Li, Qiong; Xiao, Yanan; Liu, Yulu; Sun, Kangning; Li, Bo; Zheng, Qingyin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Congenital deafness not only delays auditory development but also hampers the ability to perceive nonspeech and speech signals. This study aimed to use auditory event-related potentials to explore the mismatch negativity (MMN), P3a, negative wave (Nc), and late discriminative negativity (LDN) components in children with and without…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Auditory Perception, Perceptual Development
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Wheeler, Harley J.; Hatch, Debora R.; Moody-Antonio, Stephanie A.; Nie, Yingjiu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: In the context of music and speech perception, this study aimed to assess the effect of variation in one of two auditory attributes--pitch contour and timbre--on the perception of the other in prelingually deafened young cochlear implant (CI) users, and the relationship between pitch contour perception and two cognitive functions of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Auditory Perception, Assistive Technology
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Wang, Li; Beaman, C. Philip; Jiang, Cunmei; Liu, Fang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Prosody or "melody in speech" in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often perceived as atypical. This study examined perception and production of statements and questions in 84 children, adolescents and adults with and without ASD, as well as participants' pitch direction discrimination thresholds. The results suggested that the abilities…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Suprasegmentals, Intonation
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Wang, Li; Ong, Jia Hoong; Ponsot, Emmanuel; Hou, Qingqi; Jiang, Cunmei; Liu, Fang – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
As an information-bearing auditory attribute of sound, pitch plays a crucial role in the perception of speech and music. Studies examining pitch processing in autism spectrum disorder have produced equivocal results. To understand this discrepancy from a mechanistic perspective, we used a novel data-driven method, the reverse-correlation paradigm,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Mandarin Chinese
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Adamidou, Christina; Okalidou, Areti; Fourakis, Marios; Printza, Athanasia; Kyriafinis, Georgios – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: ?he lexical stress pattern (trochaic vs. iambic) may affect various aspects of word learning and word production in children with cochlear implants (CIs). This study aimed to investigate lexical stress effects in word learning by Greek-speaking children with CIs. Method: A word learning paradigm, consisting of a word production and a word…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Task Analysis, Word Recognition, Greek
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Chung, Wei-Lun; Jarmulowicz, Linda; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Several studies have revealed that prosody contributes to reading acquisition. However, the relation between awareness of prosodic patterns and different facets of language ability (e.g., vocabulary knowledge) in school-age children remains unclear. This study measured awareness of prosodic patterns using non-speech and speech stimuli.…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Cues, Suprasegmentals, Reading Ability
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Chen, Fei; Zhang, Kaile; Guo, Qingqing; Lv, Jia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore when and how Mandarin-speaking children use contextual cues to normalize speech variability in perceiving lexical tones. Two different cognitive mechanisms underlying speech normalization (lower level acoustic normalization and higher level acoustic-phonemic normalization) were investigated through the…
Descriptors: Cues, Context Effect, Acoustics, Phonemics
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Saindon, Mathieu R.; Trehub, Sandra E.; Schellenberg, E. Glenn; van Lieshout, Pascal – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Young children are slow to master conventional intonation patterns in their "yes/no" questions, which may stem from imperfect understanding of the links between terminal pitch contours and pragmatic intentions. In Experiment 1, five to ten-year-old children and adults were required to judge utterances as questions or statements on the…
Descriptors: Intonation, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Intention
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van de Velde, Daan J.; Frijns, Johan H. M.; Beers, Mieke; van Heuven, Vincent J.; Levelt, Claartje C.; Briaire, Jeroen; Schiller, Niels O. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Relative to normally hearing (NH) peers, the speech of children with cochlear implants (CIs) has been found to have deviations such as a high fundamental frequency, elevated jitter and shimmer, and inadequate intonation. However, two important dimensions of prosody (temporal and spectral) have not been systematically investigated. Given…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Gender Differences, Hearing Impairments
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Conwell, Erin – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Many approaches to early word learning posit that children assume a one-to-one mapping of form and meaning. However, children's early vocabularies contain homophones, words that violate that assumption. Children might learn such words by exploiting prosodic differences between homophone meanings that are associated with lemma frequency (Gahl,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Vowels, Intonation
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Donkers, Franc C. L.; Carlson, Mike; Schipul, Sarah E.; Belger, Aysenil; Baranek, Grace T. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Atypical sensory response patterns are common in children with autism and developmental delay. Expanding on previous work, this observational electroencephalogram study assessed auditory event-related potentials and their associations with clinically evaluated sensory response patterns in children with autism spectrum disorder (n = 28),…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
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