A multidimensional scaling analysis of tone discrimination ability in Cantonese-speaking children using a cochlear implant.

Tone discrimination testing with two groups of profoundly hearing-impaired children using a cochlear implant and one group of normally hearing children suggests that pitch level is perceptually more salient than pitch contour. In this paper, the discrimination results from these children are submitt...

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Publicado en:Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 101 - 114
Autores principales: Barry JG, Blamey PJ, Martin LFA
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2002
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          Barry JG
          Blamey PJ
          Martin LFA
        affil: University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; j.barry@medoto.unimelb.edu.au
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          Pitch Perception In Infancy and Childhood
          Cochlear Implant In Infancy and Childhood
          Chinese Persons In Infancy and Childhood
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          Fisher's Exact Test
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      ab: Tone discrimination testing with two groups of profoundly hearing-impaired children using a cochlear implant and one group of normally hearing children suggests that pitch level is perceptually more salient than pitch contour. In this paper, the discrimination results from these children are submitted to a multidimensional scaling analysis to determine what differences if any exist between the children in the information they use to discriminate between tone types. Through the multidimensional scaling analysis it is shown that, 'average pitch height' and 'pitch direction' are the most salient acoustic features in tone with pitch height being perceptually more important than pitch level. Furthermore, these acoustic features are similarly salient for all three groups of children despite differences in the source of auditory information and linguistic experience. Finally, the two groups of cochlear implant users who employ different speech processing strategies with their implant are shown to be distinguishable by differences in the relative salience of pitch direction.
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