Titterington Jill, Henry Alison, Krämer Martin, Toner Joe G, Stevenson Mike
Regional Cochlear Implant Centre, Belfast, UK.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2006 Jun;20(4):249-69. doi: 10.1080/02699200400015291.
In this study the influence of prosodic foot structure on the processing of weak syllables in children with cochlear implants (CI) was investigated. A battery of tests investigating processing of weak syllables in single and multi-word utterances was carried out on four groups of children: 15 children with CI developing spoken language as expected (Main CI); five children with CI reported to have additional speech and language problems; 15 age matched; and 15 language matched (LM) children with normal hearing (NH). Children in the main CI and, to a lesser extent, the LM groups processed footed weak syllables preferably over unfooted weak syllables (particularly as memory load increased). Thus, these children with CI appear to possess a similar Prosodic Hierarchy (PH) to their LM peers with NH, and possibly due to the impact of delayed and constrained exposure to audition on the development of linguistic processing and short-term memory, are influenced by its foot structure in the processing of weak syllables.
在本研究中，我们调查了韵律音步结构对人工耳蜗（CI）植入儿童弱音节加工的影响。对四组儿童进行了一系列测试，以研究单字和多字话语中弱音节的加工情况：15名人工耳蜗植入儿童，其口语发展符合预期（主要人工耳蜗植入组）；5名据报告有额外言语和语言问题的人工耳蜗植入儿童；15名年龄匹配儿童；以及15名听力正常（NH）的语言匹配（LM）儿童。主要人工耳蜗植入组的儿童，以及在较小程度上，语言匹配组的儿童，相对于无音步的弱音节，更倾向于加工有音步的弱音节（尤其是随着记忆负荷增加时）。因此，这些人工耳蜗植入儿童似乎拥有与听力正常的语言匹配同龄人相似的韵律层级（PH），并且可能由于延迟和受限的听觉接触对语言加工和短期记忆发展的影响，在弱音节加工中受到其音步结构的影响。
