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Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Bowdrie, Kristina; Holt, Rachael Frush; Blank, Andrew; Wagner, Laura
Journal of Child Language, v49 n2 p366-381 Mar 2021
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.
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Children, Language Acquisition, Acoustics
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