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Khwaileh, Fadwa A.; Flipsen, Peter, Jr. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study examined the intelligibility of speech produced by 17 children (aged 4-11 years) with cochlear implants. Stimulus items included sentences from the Beginners' Intelligibility Test (BIT) and words from the Children Speech Intelligibility Measure (CSIM). Naive listeners responded by writing sentences heard or with two types of responses…
Descriptors: Sentences, Assistive Technology, Mutual Intelligibility, Correlation
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Flipsen, Peter, Jr.; Colvard, Lana G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2006
The intelligibility of conversational speech produced by six children fitted with cochlear implants before age 3 years was measured longitudinally. Samples were obtained every 3 months during periods of 12-21 months. Intelligibility was measured using both an utterance-by-utterance approach and an approach to the sample as a whole. Statistically…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Age Differences, Assistive Technology, Deafness
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West, Candace; Zimmerman, Don H. – Social Problems, 1977
This study found that there are striking similarities between the pattern of interruptions in male-female interchanges and those observed in the adult-child transactions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Patterns, Models, Mothers