Perception of cantonese lexical tones by pediatric cochlear implant users

CM Holt; KYS Lee; RC Dowell; AP Vogel

Journal article

Perception of cantonese lexical tones by pediatric cochlear implant users

CM Holt, KYS Lee, RC Dowell, AP Vogel

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research | AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-17-0027

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess Cantonese word recognition and the discrimination of Cantonese tones with manipulated contours by child and adolescent cochlear implant (CI) users and a group of peers with normal hearing (NH). It was hypothesized that the CI users would perform more poorly than their counterparts with NH in both tasks and that CI users implanted before 2 years of age would perform better than those implanted after 2 years. Method: Forty-one participants were recruited from hospitals, schools, and kindergartens in Hong Kong: Ten CI users implanted at or before 2 years of age (“early” CI group), 13 CI users implanted after 2 years of age (“late” CI group), and 1..

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Funding Acknowledgements

Ivy Lam and Rainer Lau provided administrative support. This research was supported by the Australian Research Council Linkage Grant LP13010026, for which Cochlear Ltd is the Industry Partner. Adam P. Vogel holds a Career Development Fellowship (ID 1082910) from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. The authors would like to thank all the participants and their caregivers for volunteering their time for this study. The authors thank Peggy Kan, Vivian Chau, Karen Cheung, Alison Lam, and Ginni Lam for helping with data collection and Iris Ng for audiologic testing.