Journal article
Alveolar and Postalveolar Voiceless Fricative and Affricate Productions of Spanish-English Bilingual Children With Cochlear Implants
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research, Vol.60(9), pp.2427-2441
09/18/2017
DOI: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0125
PMCID: PMC5831615
PMID: 28800372
Abstract
This study investigates the production of voiceless alveolar and postalveolar fricatives and affricates by bilingual and monolingual children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) and their peers with normal hearing (NH).\nFifty-four children participated in our study, including 12 Spanish-English bilingual CI users (M = 6;0 [years;months]), 12 monolingual English-speaking children with CIs (M = 6;1), 20 bilingual children with NH (M = 6;5), and 10 monolingual English-speaking children with NH (M = 5;10). Picture elicitation targeting /s/, /tʃ/, and /ʃ/ was administered. Repeated-measures analyses of variance comparing group means for frication duration, rise time, and centroid frequency were conducted for the effects of CI use and bilingualism.\nAll groups distinguished the target sounds in the 3 acoustic parameters examined. Regarding frication duration and rise time, the Spanish productions of bilingual children with CIs differed from their bilingual peers with NH. English frication duration patterns for bilingual versus monolingual CI users also differed. Centroid frequency was a stronger place cue for children with NH than for children with CIs.\nPatterns of fricative and affricate production display effects of bilingualism and diminished signal, yielding unique patterns for bilingual and monolingual CI users.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Alveolar and Postalveolar Voiceless Fricative and Affricate Productions of Spanish-English Bilingual Children With Cochlear Implants
- Creators
- Fangfang Li - Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, CanadaFerenc Bunta - Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Houston, TXJ Bruce Tomblin - Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Iowa, Iowa City
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of speech, language, and hearing research, Vol.60(9), pp.2427-2441
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0125
- PMID
- 28800372
- PMCID
- PMC5831615
- ISSN
- 1092-4388
- eISSN
- 1558-9102
- Grant note
- R03 DC012640 / NIDCD NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/18/2017
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070201002771
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