Imitative production of rising speech intonation in pediatric cochlear implant recipients

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1210-1227

  Peng, Shu Chen ^a,b   Tomblin, J Bruce ^a   Spencer, Linda J ^a   Hurtig, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Cochlear implants; Prosody; Speech development; Speech intonation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIATRICS; RECORDING; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 35848945696     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/085)     Document Type: Article

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