Speech processing cues in children with hearing loss intervened with cochlear implants in collaboration with the Doctoral School of Biomedical Sciences, Katholik University of Leuven, Belgium.
The study aimed to investigate the effect of sonority on lexical processing by children with Cochlear Implants (CIs) and their facility for tapping into phonological grammar during lexical access. Specifically, it was investigated whether the auditory capacity for speech perception of children with CIs is affected by sonority cues such as the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) and whether the sonority constraints are internalized as language-learning rules in children with CIs relative to NH children. The studies examined the topic cross-linguistically, that is in Greek and Flemish.