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Date: 12-Dec-2011
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Speech and Sign Perception in Deaf Children with Cochlear
Implants: Giezen


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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:23:03
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Speech and Sign Perception in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Giezen

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Title: Speech and Sign Perception in Deaf Children with Cochlear
Implants 
Series Title: LOT dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Marcel Giezen

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930584 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 


Abstract:

Although a cochlear implant (CI) restores access to sound and speech for
profoundly deaf children, there is substantial inter-individual variation in
outcomes and many children with a CI continue to be delayed in their spoken
language development. This suggests that they may benefit from alternative
modes of communication such as sign language. However, the role of signed
input in the education of children with a CI is much debated. The aim of the 
present thesis was two-folded: to explore underlying processes in speech 
perception that may help to explain inter-individual variation in outcomes, and 
to obtain insight into the effects of signed input on spoken language abilities. 
To that end, this thesis investigates speech and sign perception in 5- to 6-
year old children with a CI. More specifically, it examines and interrelates the 
use of acoustic and visual cues in phonetic categorization and the 
representation of phonetic contrasts in novel words and signs. Additionally,it 
investigates the effects of bimodal (i.e., simultaneously spoken and signed) 
input on speech perception.The analyses show that children with a CI have 
fuzzy boundaries between sound categories and have difficulties to represent 
phonetic detail in novel words. Weakly-specified auditory phonological-lexical 
representations likely negatively impact speech processing. Importantly, 
signing experience did not negatively affect their speech perception and 
bimodal input seemed to even facilitate spoken word recognition. Together, 
these findings form an argument for bilingualism in a spoken and a signed 
language as the ultimate goal in the rehabilitation and education of children 
with a CI. 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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