28.3939, Books: The processing of Dutch prosody: children with cochlear implants and vocoded speech: Van de Velde

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:03:40
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The processing of Dutch prosody: children with cochlear implants and vocoded speech: Van de Velde

Title: The processing of Dutch prosody: children with cochlear implants
and vocoded speech 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/the-processing-of-dutch-prosody-with-cochlear-implants-and-vocoder-simulations 

Author: Daan Johan Van de Velde

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932458 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

This doctoral dissertation reports five studies investigating the processing
of prosody and music with cochlear implants or simulations thereof (vocoders)
in Dutch. Cochlear implants are implanted hearing prostheses that partly
restore hearing for profoundly deaf individuals by presenting an electrical
reconstruction of sound to the hearing nerve. Prosody is the melody and rhythm
of speech and is crucial in spoken communication. Important functions of
prosody include the conveying of emotions (emotional prosody) and the marking
of new or old information in utterances (linguistic prosody). These functions
are realized by speakers, among other ways, by means of variation in
intonation and the duration of parts of an utterance. Of these forms, the
perception of intonation variations, but not particularly of duration
variations, is notoriously difficult for cochlear implant users. This
difficulty is caused by limitations of the device and the interface between
cochlear implants and the hearing nerve.

Possible limitations in perception and production of linguistic and emotional
prosody by actual and simulated cochlear implant hearing had never been
systematically studied. This thesis shows that cochlear implant users might
have more difficulty discriminating emotional than linguistic prosody and that
they rely relatively much on intonation cues for emotional prosody but on
duration cues for linguistic prosody. Tests with vocoders showed that
increasing the slopes of spectral filters (simulating spectral smearing)
improves prosody perception up to values much extremer than tested before.
Taken together, this set of experiments discusses issues to take into account
when studying the perception and production of prosody by cochlear implant
users.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Psycholinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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