Abstract
The objective of the present study was to examine alternative explanations for changes in speech demonstrated by individuals with a cochlear implant, in response to auditory feedback deprivation. By employing French vowels, for which monolingual English speakers do not have internal representations, this study compared formant frequencies of vowels produced in the presence and absence of auditory feedback. It was hypothesized that the lack of auditory feedback should not lead to vowel formant frequency shifts for these novel sounds. However, if, in addition to formants frequency shifts, increases in speaking rate and fundamental frequencies are observed in the absence of auditory feedback, the data would support the idea that talkers attempt to speak more clearly to maximize information from other sensory channels. Four children with cochlear implants (7–11 years of age) and four children with normal hearing (mean age 8.6 years) repeated English (familiar) and French (unfamiliar) vowels presented through ...
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