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

人工耳蜗术通过耳蜗中的电极刺激听神经，为原本功能失聪的人提供听觉信息。耳蜗点刺激的速度是恒定的，因此，尽管CI很有天赋，但它不能有效地传达基音信息。在声调语言中，词义取决于辅音、元音和声调(主要通过音高来传达)，这些信息对于感知和说话声调语言是必不可少的。通过运用实验心理学方法、听觉和视觉(唇面)言语信息、夸张的声调线索和元语言教学，开发一种非声调语言非CI儿童提高声调知觉的训练方法。

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.