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

by Joanna Hart Lowenstein

Book Overview

This book 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). The methodology is based on the work of Joseph Perkell at MIT, replicating and extending analysis to subjects with modern digital cochlear implants and processor technology. Lowenstein...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415540909
• ISBN13: 9780415540902
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"