Faes Jolien, Gillis Steven
a Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics (CLiPS) Research Center , University of Antwerp , Antwerp , Belgium.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2016;30(12):959-982. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2016.1213882. Epub 2016 Sep 6.
Fricative production is affected in children with cochlear implants (CI) as compared to age-matched normally hearing (NH) children. However, the phonological development of children with CI is rarely compared to that of NH peers matched on lexicon size. We compare the early word initial fricative development of 10 children with CI and 30 NH children matched on lexicon size and on chronological age. Children with CI are expected to differ from their NH peers when they are matched on chronological age. But, are lexical development and phonological development commensurate in children with CI as they have been shown to be in NH children? Results show that fricative production in children with CI deviates from that of age-matched NH peers. The differences between both groups disappear when they were matched on lexicon size. Thus, phonological development in children with CI is similar to that of their NH peers with comparable lexicon sizes.
与年龄匹配的正常听力(NH)儿童相比,人工耳蜗植入(CI)儿童的擦音发音受到影响。然而,很少将CI儿童的语音发展与词汇量匹配的NH同龄人进行比较。我们比较了10名CI儿童和30名词汇量和实足年龄匹配的NH儿童早期单词起始擦音的发展情况。当CI儿童与NH同龄人按实足年龄匹配时,预计他们会有所不同。但是,CI儿童的词汇发展和语音发展是否像NH儿童那样相称呢?结果表明,CI儿童的擦音发音与年龄匹配的NH同龄人不同。当两组按词汇量匹配时,两组之间的差异消失。因此,CI儿童的语音发展与词汇量相当的NH同龄人相似。