International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
Volume 74, Issue 8 , Pages 883-890 , August 2010

Lexical effects on spoken word recognition performance among Mandarin-speaking children with normal hearing and cochlear implants

  • Nan Mai Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Speech Language Pathology & Audiology, Chung Shan Medical University, No. 110 Jianguo North Road, Sec. 1, Taichung City 402, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 4 24730022x11782; fax: +886 4 23248182.
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  • Che-Ming Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Karen Iler Kirk

      Affiliations

    • Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Received 17 February 2010 ,Revised 30 April 2010 ,Accepted 4 May 2010.

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PII: S0165-5876(10)00215-6

doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2010.05.005

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
Volume 74, Issue 8 , Pages 883-890 , August 2010

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