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. 2023 Dec 1;3(12):127601.
doi: 10.1121/10.0023996.

Emotional prosody perception and production are linked in prelingually deaf children with cochlear implantsa)

Monita Chatterjee  1 , Ava Feller  1 , Aditya M Kulkarni  1 , John J Galvin  2
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Emotional prosody perception and production are linked in prelingually deaf children with cochlear implantsa)

Monita Chatterjee et al. JASA Express Lett. .

Abstract

Links between perception and production of emotional prosody by children with cochlear implants (CIs) have not been extensively explored. In this study, production and perception of emotional prosody were measured in 20 prelingually deaf school-age children with CIs. All were implanted by the age of 3, and most by 18 months. Emotion identification was well-predicted by prosody productions in terms of voice pitch modulation and duration. This finding supports the idea that in prelingually deaf children with CIs, production of emotional prosody is associated with access to auditory cues that support the perception of emotional prosody.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Fig. 1.
Identification of exaggerated (left) or attenuated prosody (right) as a function of the ratio between happy and sad productions from the same participants in terms of F0 standard deviation (F0sd_ratio) (top) or duration (Dur_ratio) (bottom). The solid lines show the fit, and the shaded areas show the 95% confidence intervals from a linear regression model.
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