| Maternal interactions with a hearing and hearing-impaired twin: similarities and differences in speech input, interaction quality, and word production. | |
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PMID: 20220028 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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PURPOSE: This study examined a mother's speech style and interactive behaviors with her twin sons: 1 with bilateral hearing impairment (HI) and the other with normal hearing (NH). METHOD: The mother was video-recorded interacting with her twin sons when the boys were 12.5 and 22 months of age. Mean F0, F0 range, duration, and F1/F2 vowel space of the corner vowels /i/, /u/, and /a/ were compared in her infant-directed (ID) and adult-directed (AD) speech. The interactions were also coded for emotional availability, and vocabulary size was collected at 17 and 22 months. RESULTS: Acoustic analyses revealed no difference among mean F0, F0 range, and duration between the twins. In contrast, when the corner vowels were plotted in F1/F2 vowel space, the results showed a diminished vowel space in speech to the HI twin compared to the NH twin. Ratings of emotional availability were lower for the HI than the NH twin, but the HI twin had a larger expressive vocabulary on both occasions, albeit in the lower percentile. CONCLUSIONS: The mother appears more focused on maintaining the attention of the HI infant using the typical ID exaggerations to prosody and overlooking linguistic features such as the hyperarticulation of her vowels. The results have implications for early intervention strategies. |
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Authors:
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Christa Lam; Christine Kitamura |
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Type: Case Reports; Journal Article Date: 2010-03-10 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR Volume: 53 ISSN: 1558-9102 ISO Abbreviation: J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. Publication Date: 2010 Jun |
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Created Date: 2010-06-10 Completed Date: 2010-10-08 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9705610 Medline TA: J Speech Lang Hear Res Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 543-55 Citation Subset: IM |
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MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Building 5, Bankstown Campus, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, New South Wales 1797, Australia. c.lam@uws.edu.au |
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Attention Emotions Female Hearing Disorders / psychology* Humans Infant Language Tests Male Maternal Behavior / psychology* Mother-Child Relations* Phonetics Psycholinguistics Speech* Speech Acoustics Speech Production Measurement Time Factors Twins, Dizygotic / psychology* Vocabulary |
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