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The production of /s/-stop clusters by pre-schoolers with hearing loss
- Source :
- Journal of Child Language. :1-12
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022.
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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.
Details
- ISSN :
- 14697602 and 03050009
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Child Language
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b8677da56fb3d3328837eba015764db2