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Verb structures in two French cochlear implanted children

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A recent review of studies on language skills in deaf children with early cochlear implantation (Hallé & Duchesne, 2015) shows that these children reach standard levels in terms of overall language skills but that difficulties persist in morphosyntax. Yet according to these authors, the tests used to evaluate these skills provide a partial image of their difficulties, and complementary analyses should bear on spontaneous language. Our presentation provides a study on verb structures in spontaneous language: it is based on video recordings of 2 profoundly deaf French children, implanted early (at the age of 13 and 18 months, respectively), both filmed 36 months after implantation. An earlier recording is also available for both children, which can be used as reference point. In the films, the children are playing at picture matching games and construction games with an adult. A normally hearing child has been recorded in the same conditions for comparison. Our analysis of verb structures in the data shows that both children produce standard transitive structures (SVO) and non-transitive structures (SV), which co-exist with non-standard forms in which the expected object can be either missing or occupying the subject location. When the children use anaphoric pronouns as objects, their difficulties are greater if the anaphoric process is extended to several propositions. We will discuss our findings in relation to the possible deficit of phonological short term working memory in deaf children (Bourdin 2015). This deficit could hinder further language development.
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hal-01986271 , version 1 (18-01-2019)

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Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Adrienne Vieu. Verb structures in two French cochlear implanted children. International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2017), Jul 2017, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-01986271⟩

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