Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University,Van Wijkplaats 3,2311 BX,Leiden.
Department of Hungarian and Applied Linguistics,Pannon Egyetem,10 Egyetem Ut.,8200 Veszprém,Hungary.
J Child Lang. 2019 Jan;46(1):111-141. doi: 10.1017/S0305000918000387. Epub 2018 Oct 18.
The perception and production of emotional and linguistic (focus) prosody were compared in children with cochlear implants (CI) and normally hearing (NH) peers. Thirteen CI and thirteen hearing-age-matched school-aged NH children were tested, as baseline, on non-verbal emotion understanding, non-word repetition, and stimulus identification and naming. Main tests were verbal emotion discrimination, verbal focus position discrimination, acted emotion production, and focus production. Productions were evaluated by NH adult Dutch listeners. All scores between groups were comparable, except a lower score for the CI group for non-word repetition. Emotional prosody perception and production scores correlated weakly for CI children but were uncorrelated for NH children. In general, hearing age weakly predicted emotion production but not perception. Non-verbal emotional (but not linguistic) understanding predicted CI children's (but not controls') emotion perception and production. In conclusion, increasing time in sound might facilitate vocal emotional expression, possibly requiring independently maturing emotion perception skills.
比较了人工耳蜗植入儿童（CI）和正常听力（NH）同龄儿童对情感和语言（焦点）韵律的感知和产生。测试了 13 名 CI 和 13 名听力年龄匹配的学龄期 NH 儿童，作为基线，进行了非语言情感理解、非词重复以及刺激识别和命名测试。主要测试包括言语情感辨别、言语焦点位置辨别、情感表达和焦点表达。NH 成年荷兰听众对表达进行了评估。除了 CI 组的非词重复得分较低外，两组之间的所有得分都相当。情感韵律感知和产生得分与 CI 儿童相关较弱，但与 NH 儿童无关。一般来说，听力年龄对情感表达的预测作用较弱，但对情感感知的预测作用较强。非言语情感（而非语言）理解预测了 CI 儿童（而非对照组）的情感感知和表达。总之，声音时间的增加可能有助于声音的情感表达，可能需要独立成熟的情感感知技能。
