Prosody perception and production by children with cochlear implants

Daan J. Van De Velde; Niels O. Schiller; Claartje C. Levelt; Vincent J. Van Heuven; Mieke Beers; Jeroen J. Briaire; Johan H.M. Frijns

doi:10.1017/S0305000918000387

Prosody perception and production by children with cochlear implants

Daan J. Van De Velde^*, Niels O. Schiller, Claartje C. Levelt, Vincent J. Van Heuven, Mieke Beers, Jeroen J. Briaire, Johan H.M. Frijns

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	111-141
Number of pages	31
Journal	Journal of Child Language
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000387
Publication status	Published - 01 Jan 2019

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cochlear implants
phonetic cues
prosody

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