ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2015
Are Young Children With Cochlear Implants Sensitive to the Statistics of Words in the Ambient Spoken Language?
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- Influence of Child-Level Factors and Lexical Characteristics on Vocabulary Knowledge of Children With Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Production of nouns and adjectives of children with cochlear implants and of children with typical hearing.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Acoustic-Lexical Characteristics of Child-Directed Speech Between 7 and 24 Months and Their Impact on Toddlers' Phonological Processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Early Vocabulary Profiles of Young Deaf Children Who Use Cochlear Implants.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2020Article
- Comparing Word Characteristic Effects on Vocabulary of Children with Cochlear Implants.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2019Article
- The Role of Statistical Learning in Understanding and Treating Spoken Language Outcomes in Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2018Review
- Long-Term Language Development in Children With Early Simultaneous Bilateral Cochlear Implants.Ear and hearingArticle
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purposeThe purpose of this study was to determine whether children with cochlear implants (CIs) are sensitive to statistical characteristics of words in the ambient spoken language, whether that sensitivity changes in expected ways as their spoken lexicon grows, and whether that sensitivity varies with unilateral or bilateral implantation.
methodWe analyzed archival data collected from the parents of 36 children who received cochlear implantation (20 unilateral, 16 bilateral) before 24 months of age. The parents reported their children's word productions 12 months after implantation using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories: Words and Sentences (Fenson et al., 1993). We computed the number of words, out of 292 possible monosyllabic nouns, verbs, and adjectives, that each child was reported to say and calculated the average phonotactic probability, neighborhood density, and word frequency of the reported words.
resultsSpoken vocabulary size positively correlated with average phonotactic probability and negatively correlated with average neighborhood density, but only in children with bilateral CIs.
conclusionAt 12 months postimplantation, children with bilateral CIs demonstrate sensitivity to statistical characteristics of words in the ambient spoken language akin to that reported for children with normal hearing during the early stages of lexical development. Children with unilateral CIs do not.
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