Perception of Cantonese Lexical Tones by Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users

Colleen M Holt; Kathy YS Lee; Richard C Dowell; Adam P Vogel

Journal article

Perception of Cantonese Lexical Tones by Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users

Colleen M Holt, Kathy YS Lee, Richard C Dowell, Adam P Vogel

JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH | AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC | Published : 2018

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

University of Melbourne Researchers

Colleen Holt Author Audiology and Speech Pathology

Richard Dowell Author Audiology and Speech Pathology

Adam Vogel Author Audiology and Speech Pathology

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia

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.