Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

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ID20367489
AuthorsKristina Bowdrie (0000-0003-3482-1504, The Ohio State University, corresponding author), Rachael Frush Holt (0000-0002-6329-0995, The Ohio State University), Andrew Blank (0000-0002-6785-2086, The Ohio State University), Laura Wagner (0000-0001-8557-4844, The Ohio State University)
Year2022
Volume49
Issue2
Pages366-381
Publication date2022-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000921000180
PMID33880987
OpenAlexW3154021390
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited43

Grammatical morphology often links small acoustic forms to abstract semantic domains. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have reduced access to the acoustic signal and frequently have delayed acquisition of grammatical morphology (e.g., Tomblin, Harrison, Ambrose, Walker, Oleson & Moeller, 2015). This study investigated the naturalistic use of aspectual morphology in DHH children to determine if they organize this semantic domain as normal hearing (NH) children have been found to do. Thirty DHH children ( M = 6;8) and 29 NH children ( M = 5;11) acquiring English participated in a free-play session and their tokens of perfective (simple past) and imperfective (- ing ) morphology were coded for the lexical aspect of the predicate they marked. Both groups showed established prototype effects, favoring perfective + telic and imperfective + atelic pairings over perfective + atelic and perfective + atelic ones. Thus, despite reduced access to the acoustic signal, this DHH group was unimpaired for aspectual organization

Language acquisition · Language development · Naturalism · Naturalistic observation · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language Development and Disorders · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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