Abstract
Orally trained hearing impaired children with hearing aids and cochlear implants show general syntactic deficit in constructions involving movement (passives, wh-questions and relative clauses) as a result of their late exposure to linguistic input (Friedmann & Szterman, 2006). In this paper, we explore XP movement in wh-questions and X0 movement in verbal answers and in clitic production in cochlear implanted children’s spontaneous speech. The results show that these children have no problems with wh- movement but show difficulties with X0 movement,revealing a possible difficulty with a type of movement that takes place at the PF interface.
| Translated title of the contribution | X0 movement in children with cochlear implant: evidence for syntactic deficit in cases of late input |
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| Original language | Portuguese |
| Pages (from-to) | 205-234 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | XXXI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística - Braga Duration: 28 Oct 2015 → 30 Oct 2015 |
Keywords
- X0 movement
- syntactic deficit
- hearing impairment
- language acquisition
- cochlear implant
