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: Received: 25 September 2023 / Approved: 25 September 2023 / Online: 26 September 2023 (05:00:33 CEST)
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Zhang, H.; Dai, X.; Ma, W.; Ding, H.; Zhang, Y. High Variability Phonetic Training Facilitates Transfer of Learning from Perception to Production in Children with Cochlear Implants. Preprints2023, 2023091732. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1732.v1
Zhang, H.; Dai, X.; Ma, W.; Ding, H.; Zhang, Y. High Variability Phonetic Training Facilitates Transfer of Learning from Perception to Production in Children with Cochlear Implants. Preprints 2023, 2023091732. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1732.v1
Zhang, H.; Dai, X.; Ma, W.; Ding, H.; Zhang, Y. High Variability Phonetic Training Facilitates Transfer of Learning from Perception to Production in Children with Cochlear Implants. Preprints2023, 2023091732. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1732.v1
APA Style
Zhang, H., Dai, X., Ma, W., Ding, H., & Zhang, Y. (2023). High Variability Phonetic Training Facilitates Transfer of Learning from Perception to Production in Children with Cochlear Implants. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1732.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Zhang, H., Hongwei Ding and Yang Zhang. 2023 "High Variability Phonetic Training Facilitates Transfer of Learning from Perception to Production in Children with Cochlear Implants" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1732.v1
Abstract
Purpose: This study builds upon an established effective training method to investigate the advantages of high variability phonetic identification training for enhancing lexical tone perception and production in Mandarin-speaking pediatric cochlear implant (CI) recipients, who typically face ongoing challenges in these areas. Method: Thirty two Mandarin-speaking children with CIs were quasi-randomly assigned into the training group (TG) and the control group (CG). The sixteen TG participants received five sessions of high variability phonetic training (HVPT) within a period of three weeks. The CG participants did not receive the training. Perception and production of Mandarin tones were administered before (pretest) and immediately after (posttest) the completion of HVPT via lexical tone recognition task and picture naming task. Both groups participated in the identical pretest and posttest with the same time frame between the two test sessions. Results: TG showed significant improvement from pretest to posttest in identifying Mandarin tones for both trained and untrained speech stimuli. Moreover, perceptual learning of HVPT facilitated trainees’ lexical tone production as rated by a cohort of 10 Mandarin-speaking adults with normal hearing. In contrast, CG did not exhibit significant changes in either perception or production. Conclusion: The results represent initial evidence of HVPT-induced transfer of perceptual learning to lexical tone production in CI users, which supports the application of this speech training protocol to aural rehabilitation practice.
Keywords
high variability phonetic training (HVPT); lexical tone; perception-production link; cochlear implant (CI); perceptual learning
Subject
Social Sciences, Psychology
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