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Books: Applied Linguistics: Verbist

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        1.    Mariëtte Bonenkamp, The acquisition of personal pronouns in cochlear-implanted children: Verbist
Message 1: The acquisition of personal pronouns in cochlear-implanted children: Verbist
Date: 15-Jun-2010
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl>
Subject: The acquisition of personal pronouns in cochlear-implanted children: Verbist
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Title: The acquisition of personal pronouns in cochlear-implanted
children Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series Published: 2010 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Annemie Verbist Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930287 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 20.01
Abstract:

Today, many deaf children can be given access to oral language thanks to acochlear implant, a surgically implanted electronic device that provides asense of sound thanks to electric stimulation of the auditory nerve. In thisstudy, the acquisition of personal pronouns is considered to be a measure forthe effectiveness of cochlear implantation in congenitally deaf children.Pronouns are morphemes with low perceptual prominence. They aresemantically complex and lack morphophonological regularity. Building onthese insights, the acquisition of pronouns is quite a challenge for hearing-impaired children. The goal of this study is to examine whether a cochlearimplant provides deaf children with sufficient auditory input to acquire lowsalient and complex functional items like personal pronouns and to comparethe results to those obtained in hearing peers. Different developmental stepsin pronoun acquisition have been examined including the building of thepronominal paradigm and its morphological attributes and the acquisition ofco-referring and binding relations between pronouns and their antecedents.The results show that although cochlear-implanted children start out with adelay in the acquisition of pronouns, they are able to partially catch up withtheir hearing peers during the later stages. By the age of seven, mostcochlearimplanted children have attained a target production andcomprehension of pronouns. Based on these results, cochlear implantationbelow 24 months may be considered to be an effective way to provide pre-lingual deaf children with the necessary sensory input to acquire pronounsdespite their initial deprivation of spoken language input.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Neurolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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