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Originally Posted by Anguish
This video is such bull****.
The girl has heard her voice before. How else do you think she can speak English clearly? She's had hearing aids before ..
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No to be fair, I have limited experience with this element of linguistic study but random reading in my field has shown that deaf people who have very little experience with sound (ie their own voice) have been shown to be able to produce very accurate approximations of voice through inference.
It varies from person to person, obviously. It's kind of how you get assholes who can just adopt a Spanish accent naturally versus people who study it for years and still sound like white-bread assholes.
It has to do, mainly, with the person's own psychological perception of the language process. I'm high so take all this with a grain of salt, but most people (deaf included) only pick up cues partially, like lip movement, eyes, etc.
Truly "gifted" deaf people are those who from picking it up were able to detect tone, voice level, etc. from not only reading lips and facial expressions but, I don't ****ing know, the throat, vibrations, yadda yadda.
Anyway to end this high rant, the people who are deaf but speak decent-sounding-english are just very, very good (by nature) at their language acquisition, not from training but just from natural cognitive processes.