Cochlear implants (CIs) represent a significant engineering and medical milestone in the treatment of hearing loss for both adults and children. In this review, we provide a brief overview of CI technology, describe the benefits that CIs can provide to adults and children who receive them, and discuss the specific limitations and issues faced by CI users. We emphasize the relevance of CIs to the linguistics community by demonstrating how CIs successfully provide access to spoken language. Furthermore, CI research can inform our basic understanding of spoken word recognition in adults and spoken language development in children. Linguistics research can also help us address the major clinical issue of outcome variability and motivate the development of new clinical tools to assess the unique challenges of adults and children with CIs, as well as novel interventions for individuals with poor outcomes.

中文翻译：

---

植入人工耳蜗的成人和儿童的言语和语言结果

人工耳蜗 (CI) 代表了成人和儿童听力损失治疗的重要工程和医学里程碑。在这篇评论中，我们简要概述了 CI 技术，描述了 CI 可以为接受它们的成人和儿童提供的好处，并讨论了 CI 用户面临的具体限制和问题。我们通过展示 CI 如何成功地提供对口语的访问来强调 CI 与语言学社区的相关性。此外，CI 研究可以告知我们对成人口语识别和儿童口语发展的基本理解。语言学研究还可以帮助我们解决结果变异性的主要临床问题，并促进开发新的临床工具来评估患有 CI 的成人和儿童的独特挑战，