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

Autor/inn/en	Bowdrie, Kristina; Holt, Rachael Frush; Blank, Andrew; Wagner, Laura
Titel	Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 49 (2021) 2, S.366-381 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bowdrie, Kristina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000921000180
Schlagwörter	Morphology (Languages); Deafness; Hearing Impairments; Children; Language Acquisition; Acoustics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Akustik
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01