Fricatives, affricates, and vowels in Croatian children with cochlear implants

The aim of the research was to analyze the speech of the children with cochlear implants over approximately a 46-month period, and compare it with the speech of hearing controls. We focused on three categories of sounds in Croatian: vowels (F1 and F2 of /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/ and /u/), fricatives /s/ an...

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Matična publikacija: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
22 (2008), 10-11 ; str. 845-856
Glavni autori: Mildner, Vesna (-), Liker, Marko (Author)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
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