Speech intelligibility of Mandarin-speaking deaf children with cochlear implants

Huang, Chii Yuan; Yang, Hui; Sher, Yung‐Ji; Lin, Yi; Wu, Jiunn-Lin

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2004.10.017

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“…Actually, some of our older children appear to have longer training periods (Table 1). Our finding was in line with previous studies in which older children with cochlear implants tended to score higher on tonal-language performance (Huang et al, 2005;Lee & van Hasselt, 2005). At least partly, this could also be attributed to the aforementioned influence of auditory plasticity.…”

Section: Effect Of Age and Duration Of Cochlear Implant Use On Pitch supporting

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Strategies to Improve Music Perception in Cochlear Implantees

Chen¹,

McMahon²,

Li³

2012

Cochlear Implant Research Updates

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Section: Effect Of Age and Duration Of Cochlear Implant Use On Pitch supporting

confidence: 93%

Strategies to Improve Music Perception in Cochlear Implantees

Chen¹,

McMahon²,

Li³

2012

Cochlear Implant Research Updates

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“…Peng et al [5] reported that the subjective judgment scores of tone production of the cochlear implant children were negatively correlated with the age at implantation. Huang et al [19] showed a trend of negative correlation between the tone intelligibility and the age at implantation. However, the correlation did not reach the statistical significance.…”

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Tone production of Mandarin Chinese speaking children with cochlear implants

Han

Zhou

et al. 2007

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

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Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the tone production performance of native Mandarin Chinese speaking children with cochlear implants and to evaluate the effects of age at implantation and duration of implant use on tone production in those children. Methods:Fourteen prelingually deaf children who had received cochlear implantation and 14 agematched normal-hearing children participated in the study. Both groups were of native Mandarin Chinese speaking children. One hundred and sixty tone tokens were recorded from each of the children. The total of 4480 tokens (160 × 28) were then used in tone perception tests in which seven normal-hearing native Mandarin Chinese speaking adults participated.Results-The tone production of the cochlear implant children showed tremendous individual variability. The group mean performance was 48.4% correct, statistically significantly lower than the group mean performance of 78.0% correct in the normal-hearing controls. The tone confusion matrix analysis revealed that the production of Mandarin tone 2 (the rising tone) was most severely impaired in the cochlear implant children, followed by tone 3 (the low and dipping tone) and tone 4 (the falling tone). The most frequently perceived tone irrespective of the target tone was tone 1 (the high level tone). The tone production performance was negatively correlated with the age at implantation and positively correlated with the duration of implant use. Conclusions:There is a remarkable deficit in tone production in a majority of native tone language speaking, prelingually deaf children who have received cochlear implants. While an increased duration of implant use might facilitate tone production, the age at implantation appears to have a negative effect on tone production in cochlear implant children. Therefore, early implantation might be beneficial to tone production in prelingually deaf children whose native language is a tone language.Keywords cochlear implant; tone production; pediatric; tone language; Mandarin Chinese * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 740 593 0310; fax: +1 740 593 0287. E-mail address: XuL@ohio.edu (L. Xu).Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. In a preliminary report, we showed that prelingually deafened native Mandarin speaking children who had received cochlear implants demonstrated various degrees of deficits in tone production [4]. Peng et al. (2004) also reported that a majority of their 30 prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants did not master Mandarin tone production [5]. There is a growing body of literature th...

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“…Huang et al (2005) found recognition by adult listeners of the tones of implanted children's productions of Mandarin words in isolation at less than 60%, and of the words themselves at less than 20%. It appears that the limited capacity of cochlear implants to effectively provide fundamental frequency information seriously impedes early implantees from learning to perceive, and produce, lexical tone.…”

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Faciliation of Mandarin tone perception by visual speech in clear and degraded audio: Implications for cochlear implants

Smith

Burnham

2012

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Cochlear implant (CI) users in tone language environments report great difficulty in perceiving lexical tone. This study investigated the augmentation of simulated cochlear implant audio by visual (facial) speech information for tone. Native speakers of Mandarin and Australian English were asked to discriminate between minimal pairs of Mandarin tones in five conditions: Auditory-Only, Auditory-Visual, CI-simulated Auditory-Only, CI-simulated Auditory-Visual, and Visual-Only (silent video). Discrimination in CI-simulated audio conditions was poor compared with normal audio, and varied according to tone pair, with tone pairs with strong non-F0 cues discriminated the most easily. The availability of visual speech information also improved discrimination in the CI-simulated audio conditions, particularly on tone pairs with strong durational cues. In the silent Visual-Only condition, both Mandarin and Australian English speakers discriminated tones above chance levels. Interestingly, tone-naïve listeners outperformed native listeners in the Visual-Only condition, suggesting firstly that visual speech information for tone is available, and may in fact be under-used by normal-hearing tone language perceivers, and secondly that the perception of such information may be language-general, rather than the product of language-specific learning. This may find application in the development of methods to improve tone perception in CI users in tone language environments.

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Speech intelligibility of Mandarin-speaking deaf children with cochlear implants

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

Strategies to Improve Music Perception in Cochlear Implantees

Strategies to Improve Music Perception in Cochlear Implantees

Tone production of Mandarin Chinese speaking children with cochlear implants

Faciliation of Mandarin tone perception by visual speech in clear and degraded audio: Implications for cochlear implants

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