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View article: Consonant articulation accuracy in paediatric cochlear implant recipients
Consonant articulation accuracy in paediatric cochlear implant recipients Open
Hearing loss is a significant risk factor for delays in the spoken language development of children. The purpose of this study was to examine the distribution of articulation errors for English consonants among children with cochlear impla…
View article: The Effects of Home Language Use on Spanish Speech Measures in Bilingual Children With Hearing Loss Who Use Cochlear Implants and Their Peers With Normal Hearing
The Effects of Home Language Use on Spanish Speech Measures in Bilingual Children With Hearing Loss Who Use Cochlear Implants and Their Peers With Normal Hearing Open
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how the amount of home language use between the primary caregiver and bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) versus their bil…
View article: Home language maintenance in bilingual children with normal hearing and with hearing loss who use cochlear implants
Home language maintenance in bilingual children with normal hearing and with hearing loss who use cochlear implants Open
We investigated home language (Spanish) maintenance in Spanish- and English-speaking bilingual children with normal hearing (NH) and their peers with hearing loss (HL) who used cochlear implants (CIs) at two time points about 7 months apar…
View article: German in childhood and Latin in adolescence: On the bidialectal nature of lexical access in English
German in childhood and Latin in adolescence: On the bidialectal nature of lexical access in English Open
The nature of word etymology, long a topic of interest in linguistics, has been considered to a much lesser extent in the word recognition literature. The present study created a database of overlapping words from the English Lexicon Proje…
View article: German in childhood and Latin in adolescence: On the bidialectal nature of lexical access in English
German in childhood and Latin in adolescence: On the bidialectal nature of lexical access in English Open
The nature of word etymology, long a topic of interest in linguistics, has been considered to a much lesser extent in the word recognition literature. The present study created a database of overlapping words from the English Lexicon Proje…
View article: Speech Production Accuracy and Variability in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Cochlear Implants: A Comparison to Their Peers With Normal Hearing
Speech Production Accuracy and Variability in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Cochlear Implants: A Comparison to Their Peers With Normal Hearing Open
Purpose This study investigates consonant and vowel accuracy and whole-word variability (also called token-to-token variability or token-to-token inconsistency ) in bilingual Spanish–English and monolingual English-speaking children with c…
View article: Speaking and Reading in Two Languages: On the Identification of Reading and Language Disabilities in Spanish‐Speaking English Learners
Speaking and Reading in Two Languages: On the Identification of Reading and Language Disabilities in Spanish‐Speaking English Learners Open
Articles in this issue examine (1) the primary sources of variability in reading and language achievement among Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) in the United States, (2) the extent to which poor performance at the end of grade 2 is…
View article: Bilingual Phonological Awareness: Construct Validation in Grade 1 Spanish‐Speaking English Learners
Bilingual Phonological Awareness: Construct Validation in Grade 1 Spanish‐Speaking English Learners Open
This study investigated the dimensionality of bilingual phonological awareness (PA) in English and Spanish by replicating a kindergarten model in Grade 1, and presents alternatives to modeling clustered data. English and Spanish tasks were…
View article: IQ‐Achievement Discrepancy for Identification of Disabilities in Spanish‐speaking English Learners
IQ‐Achievement Discrepancy for Identification of Disabilities in Spanish‐speaking English Learners Open
This article examines the validity of IQ-achievement discrepancy and low achievement as criteria for the identification of disabilities in Spanish-speaking English-language learners (ELs) and the factors that moderate the validity of these…
View article: Alveolar and Postalveolar Voiceless Fricative and Affricate Productions of Spanish–English Bilingual Children With Cochlear Implants
Alveolar and Postalveolar Voiceless Fricative and Affricate Productions of Spanish–English Bilingual Children With Cochlear Implants Open
Purpose This study investigates the production of voiceless alveolar and postalveolar fricatives and affricates by bilingual and monolingual children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) and their peers with normal hearing (NH…
View article: Initial Stop Voicing in Bilingual Children With Cochlear Implants and Their Typically Developing Peers With Normal Hearing
Initial Stop Voicing in Bilingual Children With Cochlear Implants and Their Typically Developing Peers With Normal Hearing Open
Purpose This study focuses on stop voicing differentiation in bilingual children with normal hearing (NH) and their bilingual peers with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs). Method Twenty-two bilingual children participated in our…
View article: Dual language versus English‐only support for bilingual children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants and hearing aids
Dual language versus English‐only support for bilingual children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants and hearing aids Open
Background There is a critical need to understand better speech and language development in bilingual children learning two spoken languages who use cochlear implants (CIs) and hearing aids (HAs). The paucity of knowledge in this area pose…
View article: Vowel duration contrast in three long-short pairs by Hungarian 5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds
Vowel duration contrast in three long-short pairs by Hungarian 5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds Open
This study focuses on phonemic vowel quantity differentiation in 3 pairs of short versus long vowels (/i, i:, o, o:, u, u:/) by 5-, 6-, and 7-year-old monolingual Hungarian-speaking children. We hypothesized that there would be vowel quant…