Moreno-Torres, IgnacioMadrid-Cánovas, Sonia2023-01-252023-01-252018http://hdl.handle.net/10668/12801This paper presents the results of closed-set recognition task for 80 Spanish consonant-vowel sounds in 8-talker babble. Three groups of subjects participated in the study: a group of children using cochlear implants (CIs; age range: 7-13), an age-matched group of children with normal hearing (NH), and a group of adults with NH. The speech-to-noise ratios at which the participants recognized 33% of the target consonants were +7.8 dB, -3 dB, and -6 dB, respectively. In order to clarify the qualitative differences between the groups, groups were matched for the percentage of recognized syllables. As compared with the two groups with NH, the children with CIs: (1) produced few "I do not know" responses; (2) frequently selected the voiced stops (i.e., /b, d, ɡ/) and the most energetic consonants (i.e., /l, r, ʝ, s, ʧ/); (3) showed no vowel context effects; and (4) had a robust voicing bias. As compared with the adults with NH, both groups of children showed a fronting bias in place of articulation errors. The factors underlying these error patterns are discussed.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/AdolescentAdultChildCochlear ImplantationCochlear ImplantsFemaleHearingHearing TestsHumansMalePhoneticsSpeech Discrimination TestsSpeech PerceptionVoiceYoung Adultresearch article30075641open access10.1121/1.50444161520-8524https://asa.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1121/1.5044416