Development of Mandarin Chinese Vowel Perception in Young Children with Normal Hearing and Cochlear Implants

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Changxin; Li, Mingying; Yu, Jie; Liu, Chang
Titel	Development of Mandarin Chinese Vowel Perception in Young Children with Normal Hearing and Cochlear Implants
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64 (2021) 11, S.4485-4494 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Liu, Chang)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Mandarin Chinese; Assistive Technology; Language Acquisition; Vowels; Auditory Perception; Preschool Children; Phonemes; Identification; Task Analysis; Hearing (Physiology); Comparative Analysis; Native Language; Age Differences; Speech Communication; Auditory Tests; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Fonem; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Aufgabenanalyse; Gehör; Hören; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Auditory test; Autismus; Ausland
Abstract	Purpose: Depicting the development pattern of vowel perception for children with normal hearing (NH) and cochlear implants (CIs) would be useful for clinicians and school teachers to monitor children's auditory rehabilitation. The study was to investigate the development of Mandarin Chinese vowel perception for Mandarin Chinese native-speaking children with the ages of 4-6 years. Method: Vowel identification of children with NH and CIs were tested. All children with CIs received CIs before the age of 4 years. In a picture identification task with Mandarin Chinese speech stimuli, listeners identified the target consonant-vowel word among two to four contrastive words that differed only in vowels. Each target word represented a concrete object and was spoken by a young female native Mandarin Chinese talker. The target words included 16 monophthongs, 22 diphthongs, and nine triphthongs. Results: Children with NH showed significantly better identification of monophthongs and diphthongs than children with CIs at the age of 6 years, whereas the two groups had comparable performance at age of 4 and 5 years. Children with NH significantly outperformed children with CIs for triphthong identification across all three age groups. For children with NH, a rapid development of perception of all three types of vowels occurred between age 4 and 5 years with a rapid development only for monophthong perception between age 5 and 6 years. For children with CIs, a rapid development of both diphthong and triphthong perception occurred between 4 and 5 years old, but not monophthong, with no significant development between 5 and 6 years old for all three types of vowels. Overall, Mandarin-speaking children with NH achieved their ceiling performance in vowel perception before or at the age of 6 years, whereas children with CIs may need more time to reach the typical level of their peers with NH. Conclusions: The development of Mandarin vowel perception for Mandarin-native children differed between preschool-age children with NH and CIs, likely due to the deficits of spectral processing for children with CIs. The results would be a supplement to the development of speech recognition in Mandarin-native children with NH and CIs. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. 2200 Research Blvd #250, Rockville, MD 20850. Tel: 301-296-5700; Fax: 301-296-8580; e-mail: slhr@asha.org; Web site: http://jslhr.pubs.asha.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01