Optimal Training Methods for Lexical Tone Perception by Children with Cochlear Implants: Application of Experimental Psychology Techniques

耳蜗植入物（CI）通过耳蜗中的电极刺激听觉神经，为功能性耳聋的人提供听觉信息。耳蜗部位的刺激是以恒定的速率进行的，因此，尽管CI是天才的，但它不能有效地传达音高信息。 这些信息对于感知和说出声调语言是必不可少的，在声调语言中，单词的含义取决于辅音，元音和音调（主要由音高传达）。 通过实验心理学方法、听觉和视觉（唇和脸）语音信息、夸张的音调提示和元语言指导，将开发一种通过非音调语言非CI来改善音调感知的训练方法。

Cochlear implants (CIs) stimulate the auditory nerve via electrodes in the cochlear to provide auditory information to people who would otherwise be functionally deaf. Cochlear site stimulation is at a constant rate so, despite the genius of the CI, it cannot convey pitch information effectively. Such information is essential for perceiving and speaking tone languages, in which word meaning depends on consonants, vowels, and tones (conveyed mainly by pitch). A training method to improve tone perception will be developed with non-tone language non-CI through to tone language CI children drawing on experimental psychology methods, auditory and visual (lip & face) speech information, exaggerated tone cues, and metalinguistic instruction.