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KMID : 1022420160080030067
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2016 Volume.8 No. 3 p.67 ~ p.78
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A comparison between affective prosodic characteristics observed in children with cochlear implant and normal hearing
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Oh Yeong-Geon
Seong Cheol-Jae
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Abstract
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This study examined the affective prosodic characteristics observed from the children with cochlear implant (CI, hereafter) and normal hearing (NH, hereafter) along with listener’s perception on them. Speech samples were acquired from 15 normal and 15 CI children. 8 SLPs(Speech Language Pathologists) perceptually evaluated affective types using Praat’s ExperimentMFC. When it comes to the acoustic results, there were statistically meaningful differences between 2 groups in affective types [joy (discriminated by intensity deviation), anger (by intensity-related variables dominantly and duration-related variables partly), and sadness (by all aspects of prosodic variables)]. CI’s data are much more louder when expressing joy, louder and slower when expressing anger, and higher, louder, and slower when it comes to sadness than those of NH. The listeners showed much higher correlation when evaluating normal children than CI group(p<.001). Chi-square results revealed that listeners did not show coherence at CI’s utterance, but did at those of NH’s (CI(p<.01), normal(p=.48)). When CI utterances were discriminated into 3 emotional types by DA(Discriminant Analysis) using 8 acoustic variables, speed related variables such as articulation rate took primary role.
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KEYWORD
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Children with cochlear implants, Affective prosody, Listener, Perception, discriminant analysis
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