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Respiratory Changes during Reading in Mandarin-Speaking Adolescents with Prelingual Hearing Impairment
Author(s) -
WeiChun Che,
Yu-Tsai Wang,
Hsiu-Jung Lu,
Jordan R. Green
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
folia phoniatrica et logopaedica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1421-9972
pISSN - 1021-7762
DOI - 10.1159/000324211
Subject(s) - mandarin chinese , audiology , reading (process) , psychology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy
Most people with severe to profound hearing impairment (SHI) exhibit speech breathing changes, but little is known about the breath group (BG) structure for this population. The purposes of this study were to investigate, compared to speakers with normal hearing, if Mandarin-speaking adolescents with prelingual SHI take inspirations more often at syntactically inappropriate positions and exhibit a difference in the temporal BG characteristics.

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