Children's Acoustic and Linguistic Adaptations to Peers with Hearing Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Granlund, Sonia; Hazan, Valerie; Mahon, Merle
Titel	Children's Acoustic and Linguistic Adaptations to Peers with Hearing Impairment
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61 (2018) 5, S.1055-1069 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Children; Acoustics; Hearing Impairments; Preadolescents; Early Adolescents; Speech Communication; Elementary School Students; Secondary School Students; Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; Peer Relationship; Mainstreaming; Hearing (Physiology); Statistical Analysis; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Akustik; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Sekundarschüler; Ausland; Peer-Beziehungen; Gehör; Hören; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Purpose: This study aims to examine the clear speaking strategies used by older children when interacting with a peer with hearing loss, focusing on both acoustic and linguistic adaptations in speech. Method: The Grid task, a problem-solving task developed to elicit spontaneous interactive speech, was used to obtain a range of global acoustic and linguistic measures. Eighteen 9- to 14-year-old children with normal hearing (NH) performed the task in pairs, once with a friend with NH and once with a friend with a hearing impairment (HI). Results: In HI-directed speech, children increased their fundamental frequency range and midfrequency intensity, decreased the number of words per phrase, and expanded their vowel space area by increasing F1 and F2 range, relative to NH-directed speech. However, participants did not appear to make changes to their articulation rate, the lexical frequency of content words, or lexical diversity when talking to their friend with HI compared with their friend with NH. Conclusions: Older children show evidence of listener-oriented adaptations to their speech production; although their speech production systems are still developing, they are able to make speech adaptations to benefit the needs of a peer with HI, even without being given a specific instruction to do so. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. 2200 Research Blvd #250, Rockville, MD 20850. Tel: 301-296-5700; Fax: 301-296-8580; e-mail: slhr@asha.org; Web site: http://jslhr.pubs.asha.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01