Benedicte Grandon

• PhD
• Associate Professor at Nantes Université

Introduction Narrative skills are crucial for academic success and social interaction. To date, few studies have looked at the specific impact of hearing loss on higher-level language skills, like narrative skills, especially in German-speaking children. This study is the first to analyze the narrative skills of German-speaking children who are har...

Purpose Our goal is to understand how the different types of plural marking are understood and processed by children with cochlear implants (CIs): (a) how does salience affect the processing of plural marking, (b) how is this processing affected by the incomplete signal provided by the CIs, and (c) is it linked to individual factors such as chronol...

Zusammenfassung Der Erwerb der Erzählfähigkeiten ist ein wichtiger Teil des Spracherwerbs und eine Schlüsselkompetenz für eine erfolgreiche Bildungslaufbahn sowie für die soziale Teilhabe. Bisherige Forschungen zu den Erzählfähigkeiten von Kindern mit einer Hörbeeinträchtigung sind rar und heterogen. Daher untersucht die vorliegende Studie die Erzä...

The ability to process plural marking of nouns is acquired early: at a very young age, children are able to understand if a noun represents one item or more than one. However, little is known about how the segmental characteristics of plural marking are used in this process. Using eye-tracking, we aim at understanding how five to twelve-year old ch...

In the course of productive phonological development, fricatives are among the last speech sounds to emerge and to be mastered by children, probably because of the high degree of articulatory precision they require or because of difficulties with their perception. Children with cochlear implants (CI) face additional difficulties with fricative perc...

Our study compares the intelligibility of French-speaking children with a cochlear implant (N = 13) and age-matched children with typical hearing (N = 13) in a narrative task. This contrasts with previous studies in which speech intelligibility of children with cochlear implants is most often tested using repetition or reading tasks. Languages othe...

This study explores the use of F0, intensity and duration in the production of two types of prominences in French: primary accent with duration as the main acoustic cue, and secondary accent with F0 and intensity as acoustic cues. These parameters were studied in 13 children using a cochlear implant (CI) and 17 children with a normal hearing (NH),...

Studies of speech production in French-speaking cochlear-implanted (CI) children are very scarce. Yet, difficulties in speech production have been shown to impact the intelligibility of these children. The goal of this study is to understand the effect of long-term use of cochlear implant on speech production, and more precisely on the coordination...

Cochlear implantation has developed as one of the options available in case of congenital or acquired deafness in adults and children. As of 2010, cochlear implant has been used by over 200 000 persons (adults and children) worldwide and by 10 000 persons in France. Technology has largely improved since the first devices were put on the market in t...

Thirteen cochlear implanted children (CI) and twenty normal-hearing children (NH) were recorded in two conditions: repetition of words with an audio model, and production of the same words without audio model. Our goal was to study the effect of audio input on the height, anteriority and dispersion of the 10 French oral vowels in these two populati...

Thirteen cochlear implanted children (CI) and twenty normal-hearing children (NH) were recorded in two conditions: repetition of words with an audio model, and production of the same words without audio model. Our goal was to study the effect of audio input on the height, anteriority and dispersion of the 10 French oral vowels in these two populati...

Locus equation (LE) has been described and used in several acoustic studies as an indicator of place of articulation and as an index of coarticulation (among others [1]): LE in CV-sequences is a linear regression with second formant (F2) values measured at the onset of the vowel (y-axis) and at the mid-point of the vowel (x-axis). The slope of the...

Most studies on consonant production in children wearing cochlear implants (CI) are based on perceptual judgments and focus on developmental patterns before and after implantation (e.g. [1]) or on error patterns at specific time points after implantation (e.g. [2]). Acoustic studies of consonant production (stops, fricatives or affricates) are very...

French and Korean share similar prosodic characteristics as far as rhythm and intonation are concerned. In order to determine how this prosodic similarity affects the second language production, we propose in this paper to examine these prosodic parameters in read productions by Korean learners of French as a second language compared to French nati...

French and Korean are two languages with similar prosodic characteristics as far as rhythm and intonation are concerned. In this paper, we present the results of production and perception tests where we describe the prosodic characteristics of Korean L2 learners of French. Our aim is to analyze the impression of "foreign accent" for two prosodic co...