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Abstract
Producing word-initial /s/-stop clusters can be a challenge for English-speaking pre-schoolers. For children with hearing loss (HL), fricatives can be also difficult to perceive, raising questions about their production and representation of /s/-stop clusters. The goal of this study was therefore to determine if pre-schoolers with HL can produce and represent the /s/ in word-initial /s/-stop clusters, and to compare this to their normal hearing (NH) peers. Based on both acoustic and perceptual analysis, we found that children with HL had little /s/-omission, suggesting that their phonological representation of these clusters closely aligns with that of their NH peers.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1274–1285 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Child Language |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 8 Jul 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2023 |
Keywords
- /s/-stop clusters
- children
- hearing loss
- speech production
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Neural and behavioural evidence for children's learning of grammatical morphology
Demuth, K., PhD Contribution (ARC), P. C., PhD Contribution (ARC) 2, P. C. 2., MQRES, M., MQRES (International), M., MQRES 3 (International), M. 3. & Holt, R.
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