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ICS Lecture: Jing Yang "Vowel Production in Prelingually Deafened Children with Cochlear Implants"

February 7, 2014
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Jennings Hall, room 140 (1735 Neil Avenue)

Part of the Institute for Chinese Studies "Understanding China -- Its Roots and New Frontiers" Lecture Series

"Vowel Production in Prelingually Deafened Children with Cochlear Implants"

 

Abstract:
Cochlear implants (CIs) have greatly improved speech recognition in profoundly hearing-impaired children. However, due to the limited spectral resolution of CI devices, the compromised neural survival of the auditory system, and impaired storage of working memory, CI children may still differ from normal hearing (NH) children in the fine phonetic features in speech production. The present study will provide a detailed comparison of vowel acoustic features in native Mandarin-speaking children with CIs and age-matched NH children to further our understanding of the speech production in CI children.



 

Biography:
Jing Yang will receive her PhD from the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at OSU. She earned her Master’s degree in Experimental Phonetic in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interest focuses on the speech development of bilingual children and children with speech, language and hearing problems.