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The Acquisition of Acoustic Cues to Onset and Coda Voicing Contrasts by Preschoolers with Hearing Loss
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Bruggeman, Laurence; Millasseau, Julien; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Children with hearing loss (HL), including those with hearing aids (HAs) and cochlear implants (CIs), often have difficulties contrasting words like "beach" versus "peach" and "dog" versus "dock" due to challenges producing systematic voicing contrasts. Even when acoustic contrasts are present,…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
The Prosodic Licensing of Coda Consonants in Early Speech: Interactions with Vowel Length
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Miles, Kelly; Yuen, Ivan; Cox, Felicity; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2016
English has a word-minimality requirement that all open-class lexical items must contain at least two moras of structure, forming a bimoraic foot (Hayes, 1995).Thus, a word with either a long vowel, or a short vowel and a coda consonant, satisfies this requirement. This raises the question of when and how young children might learn this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, English, Suprasegmentals
The Syllabic Status of Final Consonants in Early Speech: A Case Study
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Yuen, Ivan; Miles, Kelly; Cox, Felicity; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Young children's first attempts at CVC words are often realized with the final consonant being heavily aspirated or followed by an epenthetic vowel (e.g. "cat"/kaet/ realized as [kaet[superscript h]] or [kaet[superscript ?]]). This has led some to propose that young children represent word-final (coda) consonants as an onset-nucleus…
Descriptors: Young Children, Case Studies, Child Language, Syllables