We studied prosodic perception in early-implanted children in relation to auditory discrimination, auditory working memory, and exposure to music. Word and sentence stress perception, discrimination of fundamental frequency (F0), intensity and duration, and forward digit span were measured twice over approximately 16 months. Musical activities were assessed by questionnaire. The participants were twenty-one early-implanted and normal-hearing (NH) children (age 4–13 years). As a result, children with cochlear implants (CIs) exposed to music performed better than others in stress perception and F0 discrimination …
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