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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2021

Kristina BOWDRIE Open the ORCID record for Kristina BOWDRIE [Opens in a new window] ,
Rachael Frush HOLT ,
Andrew BLANK  and
Laura WAGNER
Kristina BOWDRIE*
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University, USA
Rachael Frush HOLT
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University, USA
Andrew BLANK
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University, USA
Laura WAGNER
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University, USA
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Address for correspondence: Kristina Bowdrie, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. Email: bowdrie.1@osu.edu
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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.

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aspecthearing lossverb morphology
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , March 2022 , pp. 366 - 381
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