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Date: 15-Jun-2010
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: The acquisition of personal pronouns in cochlear-implanted
children: Verbist

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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:55:24
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.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  

Publication Year: 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 a
cochlear implant, a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a 
sense of sound thanks to electric stimulation of the auditory nerve. In this 
study, the acquisition of personal pronouns is considered to be a measure for 
the effectiveness of cochlear implantation in congenitally deaf children. 
Pronouns are morphemes with low perceptual prominence. They are 
semantically complex and lack morphophonological regularity. Building on 
these insights, the acquisition of pronouns is quite a challenge for hearing-
impaired children. The goal of this study is to examine whether a cochlear 
implant provides deaf children with sufficient auditory input to acquire low 
salient and complex functional items like personal pronouns and to compare 
the results to those obtained in hearing peers. Different developmental steps 
in pronoun acquisition have been examined including the building of the 
pronominal paradigm and its morphological attributes and the acquisition of 
co-referring and binding relations between pronouns and their antecedents. 
The results show that although cochlear-implanted children start out with a 
delay in the acquisition of pronouns, they are able to partially catch up with 
their hearing peers during the later stages. By the age of seven, most 
cochlearimplanted children have attained a target production and 
comprehension of pronouns. Based on these results, cochlear implantation 
below 24 months may be considered to be an effective way to provide pre-
lingual deaf children with the necessary sensory input to acquire pronouns 
despite their initial deprivation of spoken language input. 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Neurolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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