Predicting outcomes in children who are Cantonese Chinese speakers
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AbstractCantonese Chinese is a tone language spoken by over 85 million people worldwide as their first language (Eberhard et al, 2021). Tone refers to a suprasegmental feature characterised by variations in the speaker’s fundamental frequency pattern. A change in tone equates to a change in meaning, hence it is important for tonal language speakers to understand and produce tones correctly.
Published findings suggested that low frequencies in Cantonese contain more speech information than those in English. The F0 low-frequency suprasegmental information apparently carries great importance in Cantonese speech understanding.
Cochlear implant speech coding strategies have been well developed among native English speakers, yet particular difficulties in speech understanding seems affecting their tonal language speaking counterparts. In the process of developing and norming a particular tone identification test in Cantonese, children with typical hearing at the age of 7 years or above can be expected to achieve 100% correct in the test, while those using cochlear implant can only achieve 50% correct on average.
The lexical tone identification ability seems to be one of the important outcome indicators among children who speak tonal languages. Further details will be discussed in the talk and the panel discussion.
Published findings suggested that low frequencies in Cantonese contain more speech information than those in English. The F0 low-frequency suprasegmental information apparently carries great importance in Cantonese speech understanding.
Cochlear implant speech coding strategies have been well developed among native English speakers, yet particular difficulties in speech understanding seems affecting their tonal language speaking counterparts. In the process of developing and norming a particular tone identification test in Cantonese, children with typical hearing at the age of 7 years or above can be expected to achieve 100% correct in the test, while those using cochlear implant can only achieve 50% correct on average.
The lexical tone identification ability seems to be one of the important outcome indicators among children who speak tonal languages. Further details will be discussed in the talk and the panel discussion.
All Author(s) ListIris H-Y NG, WT CHANG, Thomas LAW, Michael CF TONG, Kathy YS LEE
Name of Conference13th Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implantation and Related Sciences
Start Date of Conference08/12/2021
End Date of Conference10/12/2021
Place of ConferenceMelbourne
Country/Region of ConferenceAustralia
Proceedings Title13th Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implantation and Related Sciences
Year2021
Month12
Day8
Place of PublicationAustralia
LanguagesEnglish-United States