Phonotactic Constraints in Young Cochlear Implant Recipients | Chapter 03 | Current Trends in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 1
Considerable
attention has been paid to infant vocalization. The aim of the current research
is to describe the prelinguistic vocal repertoire of seven young infants
wearing cochlear implants and to argue for a strong relation between early
developmental stages of speech, as cochlear implantation seems to trigger
similar vocal performances to hearing peers. In contrast to previous studies
based on typical development which argued for the existence of only one
syllable type at each stage of prelinguistic speech, the present study recorded
simultaneous co-existence of multi-syllable types of protophones in populations
characterized as atypical. Results support a gradual transition from babbling
stages into mature, more complex forms of vocalization that we meet on adult
speech. Protophonic development is rapid during the first post-implant year.
The findings are in agreement with other studies based on typically developing
children. The difference is that current data broaden the results to disordered
populations, like the infants with cochlear implants. The quantitative
classification of protophones, through the combination of acoustic and auditory
analyses provides a new reliable perspective for comparisons between
populations with similar hearing experience. Speech pathology targets to
explore the prelinguistic speech development and current methodology aims to
contribute to this direction.
Biography of author(s)
Paris Binos
Department
of Health Sciences, Language and Speech Therapy, European University Cyprus,
Cyprus.
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