1st Edition
Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society
By Joanna Hart Lowenstein
Copyright 2007
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (electrode and computer prostheses for the inner ear in cases of nerve deafness). The methodology is based on the work of Joseph Perkell at MIT, replicating and extending analysis to subjects with modern digital... Read more
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Methodology
4. Vowels and vowel perception
5. Stops and consonant perception
6. Intonation
7. Hearing subjects’ perception of cochlear implant users speech
8. Cochlear implants on U. S. television
9. Discussion
Appendix A. Materials recorded
Appendix B. Recording session orders and interview questions
Appendix C. Rainbow passage figures
Appendix D. "Bev loves Bob" figures
Notes
References
Index
Biography
Joanna Hart Lowenstein
