ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2017
Speech rate, rate-matching, and intelligibility in early-implanted cochlear implant users.
Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- Measuring speech intelligibility with deaf and hard-of-hearing children: A systematic review.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2024Pooled it
- Methodology Matters: The Impact of Research Design on Conversational Entrainment Outcomes.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2020Trial
- Sync Pending: Characterizing Conversational Entrainment in Dysarthria Using a Multidimensional, Clinically Informed Approach.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2020Trial
- Going With the Flow: An Examination of Entrainment in Typically Developing Children.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2019Trial
- Communication Experiences and Challenges in Adult Cochlear Implant Users: Associations with Age and Occupation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Classifying Conversational Entrainment of Speech Behavior: An Expanded Framework and Review.Journal of phonetics · 2022Article
- Rhythm Perception, Speaking Rate Entrainment, and Conversational Quality: A Mediated Model.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- Auditory feedback experience in the development of phonetic production: Evidence from preschoolers with cochlear implants and their normal-hearing peers.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Assessing Higher Order Language Processing in Long-Term Cochlear Implant Users.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2019Article
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Abstract
An important speech-language outcome for deaf people with cochlear implants is speech intelligibility-how well their speech is understood by others, which also affects social functioning. Beyond simply uttering recognizable words, other speech-language skills may affect communicative competence, including rate-matching or converging toward interlocutors' speech rates. This initial report examines speech rate-matching and its relations to intelligibility in 91 prelingually deaf cochlear implant users and 93 typically hearing peers age 3 to 27 years. Live-voice spoken sentences were repeated and later transcribed by multiple hearing listeners. Speech intelligibility was calculated as proportions of words correctly transcribed. For speech rate-matching measures, speech rates (syllables/s) were normalized as percentages faster or slower than examiners' speech rates. Cochlear implant users had slower speech rates, less accurate and less consistent rate-matching, and poorer speech intelligibility than hearing peers. Among cochlear implant users, speech rate and rate-matching were correlated with intelligibility: faster talkers and better rate-matchers were more intelligible. Rate-matching and intelligibility improved during preschool, with cochlear implant users delayed by about a year compared to hearing peers. By school-age, rate-matching and intelligibility were good overall, but delays persisted for many cochlear implant users. Interventions targeting rate-matching skills are therefore warranted in speech-language therapy for this population.
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