Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children With Cochlear Implants

Conclusions Children with CIs do not use prosodic information to disambiguate sentences or to facilitate comprehension of unambiguous sentences similarly to children with NH. The results suggest that cross-linguistic differences may interact with syntactic disambiguation. Prosodic contrasts that affect sentence comprehension need to be addressed directly in intervention with children with CIs.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research