The Acoustics of Word-Initial Fricatives and Their Effect on Word-Level Intelligibility in Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants
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DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000000349
Abstract: Objectives: Previous research has found that relative to their peers with normal hearing (NH), children with cochlear implants (CIs) produce the sibilant fricatives /s/ and /∫/ less accurately and with less subphonemic acoustic contrast. The… read more here.
Keywords: acoustics; intelligibility; word; children cis ... See more keywords
Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259573
Abstract: This study explores processing characteristics of a glottal stop in Maltese which occurs both as a phoneme and as an epenthetic stop for vowel-initial words. Experiment 1 shows that its hyperarticulation is not necessarily mapped… read more here.
Keywords: lexical access; glottal stops; glottal stop; initial words ... See more keywords