Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech: Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society

ISBN-13: 9780415540902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str.

Joanna Hart Lowenstein

Opis

This text 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).

Spis treści

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 US 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

O autorze

Joanna Hart Lowenstein