An investigation of weak syllable processing in deaf children with cochlear implants

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 249-269

  Titterington, Jill ^a,d   Henry, Alison ^b   Krämer, Martin ^b   Toner, Joe G ^a   Stevenson, Mike ^c  

^a Regional Cochlear Implant Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; Short term memory; Spoken language development; Trochaic feet; Weak syllable processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISORDER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33646407849     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200400015291     Document Type: Article

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