Prelinguallydeafened Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CI) encounter a significant challenge in perceiving lexical tones accurately due to their limited language experience and insufficient pitch information provided by CI devices. To facilitate their tonal perception, we examined the role of pitch gestures in the training program, which was reported to be beneficial in acquiring Mandarin lexical tones for foreign learners of Chinese. In the current study, 18 prelingually deafened preschoolers with CI were recruited in Shanghai. They were randomly assigned to two groups. The experimental group was trained with audio and pitch gestures, and the control group was trained with audio only. Three tone-identification tests were conducted before, in the middle, and after the eight training sessions. Although the two groups had identical performance before the training, the experimental group demonstrated significantly better performance than the control group after training sessions, especially in noise conditions. The results thus showed that multimodal training with pitch gestures improved the tone recognition ability of CI children more than sheer auditory training. Our findings offer more evidence to support that learning to perceive lexical tones can be facilitated by multimodal cues and also provide important implications for optimizing rehabilitation training after implantation.
Skip Nav Destination
,
,
,
Article navigation
April 2022
Meeting abstract. No PDF available.
April 01 2022
Multimodal training using pitch gesture improves Mandarin tone recognition for children with cochlear implant Free
Hongwei Ding;
Hongwei Ding
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., 800 Dong Chuan Rd., Shanghai 200240, China, [email protected]
Search for other works by this author on:
Hao Zhang;
Hao Zhang
Ctr. for Clinical Neurolinguistics, School of Foreign Lang. and Lit., Shandong Univ., Jinan, China
Search for other works by this author on:
Yang Zhang
Yang Zhang
Speech-Language-Hearing Sci., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Search for other works by this author on:
Hongwei Ding
Jing Zhang
Hao Zhang
Yang Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., 800 Dong Chuan Rd., Shanghai 200240, China, [email protected]
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 151, A274–A275 (2022)
Citation
Hongwei Ding, Jing Zhang, Hao Zhang, Yang Zhang; Multimodal training using pitch gesture improves Mandarin tone recognition for children with cochlear implant. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 April 2022; 151 (4_Supplement): A274–A275. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0011316
Download citation file:
218
Views
Citing articles via
Focality of sound source placement by higher (ninth) order ambisonics and perceptual effects of spectral reproduction errors
Nima Zargarnezhad, Bruno Mesquita, et al.
A survey of sound source localization with deep learning methods
Pierre-Amaury Grumiaux, Srđan Kitić, et al.
Variation in global and intonational pitch settings among black and white speakers of Southern American English
Aini Li, Ruaridh Purse, et al.
Related Content
Acoustic properties of vowel production in prelingually deafened Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (November 2015)
A comparative study of Mandarin compound vowels produced by prelingually deafened children with cochlear implants and normal hearing peers
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (October 2016)
Articulatory and acoustic investigations into gestures of Mandarin retroflex fricatives
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (September 2018)
Acoustic characteristics of sibilant fricatives and affricates in
Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (June 2023)
Young cochlear implant users’ response to delayed auditory feedback
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (June 1992)