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All speakers were recorded producing Mandarin words containing nine sibilant fricatives and affricates (\/s, \u0255, \u0282, ts, ts\u02b0, t\u0255, t\u0255\u02b0, t\u0282, t\u0282\u02b0\/) located at the word-initial position. Acoustic analysis was conducted to examine consonant duration, normalized amplitude, rise time, and spectral peak. The results revealed that the CI children, regardless of whether chronological-age-matched or hearing-age-matched, approximated the NH peers in the features of duration, amplitude, and rise time. However, the spectral peaks of the alveolar and alveolopalatal sounds in the CI children were significantly lower than in the NH children. 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