Purpose: This study explores the characteristics and development of unmarked and marked focus comprehension in school-age Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: The subjects included 17 children with CIs aged 6-8 years and 34 aged 9-12 years, age- and gender-matched children with typical development (TD), and 30 hearing…

Listening narrative comprehension is a complex process that requires the processing of explicit (i.e., information presented in the text) and implicit information (i.e., information inferable from the text) and involves several linguistic and cognitive skills. However, the specific role of these skills in children's comprehension remains unclear.…

Verbal working memory resources may impact syntax comprehension. Thirteen Italian children with cochlear implants (CIs) were assessed in relative clause (RC) comprehension, digit span and nonword repetition and compared to 13 chronological age peers (CA) and 13 younger controls (LA) with normal hearing (NH). The RC comprehension task tested…