The relationship between speech production and perception in Australian language speakers: implications for speech development and learning in Aboriginal children

慢性耳部感染影响了至少50%的澳大利亚土著人的生活。在代代相传的恶性循环中，它导致听力损失、教育劣势、社会经济劣势和环境掠夺，这再次导致耳朵(和许多其他)感染。这是跨学科研究人员的一次独特尝试，目的是研究语言在教育劣势中的作用，以及早期在学校使用英语是否会使土著儿童的这种劣势变得更糟。我们询问，在纯声学或语言学的基础上，用土著语言交流是否可能改善土著儿童在早年的教育和健康结果。

Chronic ear infection blights the life of at least 50% of Aboriginal Australians. In a vicious cycle that extends from generation to generation, it leads to hearing loss, educational disadvantage, socio-economic disadvantage and environmental depredation, which once again leads to ear (and many other) infections. This is a unique attempt by researchers across academic disciplines to study the role of language in educational disadvantage and whether this disadvantage might be made worse for Aboriginal children by the early use of English at school. We ask whether, on purely acoustic or linguistic grounds, communicating in an Aboriginal language might offer improved educational and health outcomes for Aboriginal children in the early years.