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Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment

Children with hearing impairment show difficulties in sentences derived by Wh-movement, such as relative clauses and Wh-questions. This study examines the nature of this deficit in 48 hearing impaired children aged 9–12 years and 38 hearing controls. The task involved reading aloud and paraphrasing...

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Autores principales: Szterman, Ronit, Friedmann, Naama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25426086
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01229
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description Children with hearing impairment show difficulties in sentences derived by Wh-movement, such as relative clauses and Wh-questions. This study examines the nature of this deficit in 48 hearing impaired children aged 9–12 years and 38 hearing controls. The task involved reading aloud and paraphrasing of object relatives that include a noun-verb heterophonic homograph. The correct pronunciation of the homograph in these sentences depended upon the correct construction of the syntactic structure of the sentence. An analysis of the reading and paraphrasing of each participant exposed two different patterns of syntactic impairment. Some hearing-impaired children paraphrased the object relatives incorrectly but could still read the homograph, indicating impaired assignment of thematic roles alongside good syntactic structure building; other hearing-impaired children could neither read the homograph nor paraphrase the sentence, indicating a structural deficit in the syntactic tree. Further testing of these children confirmed the different impairments: some are impaired only in Wh-movement, whereas others have CP impairment. The syntactic impairment correlated with whether or not a hearing device was fitted by the age of 1 year, but not with the type of hearing device or the depth of hearing loss: children who had a hearing device fitted during the first year of life had better syntactic abilities than children whose hearing devices were fitted later.
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spelling pubmed-42240752014-11-25 Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment Szterman, Ronit Friedmann, Naama Front Psychol Psychology Children with hearing impairment show difficulties in sentences derived by Wh-movement, such as relative clauses and Wh-questions. This study examines the nature of this deficit in 48 hearing impaired children aged 9–12 years and 38 hearing controls. The task involved reading aloud and paraphrasing of object relatives that include a noun-verb heterophonic homograph. The correct pronunciation of the homograph in these sentences depended upon the correct construction of the syntactic structure of the sentence. An analysis of the reading and paraphrasing of each participant exposed two different patterns of syntactic impairment. Some hearing-impaired children paraphrased the object relatives incorrectly but could still read the homograph, indicating impaired assignment of thematic roles alongside good syntactic structure building; other hearing-impaired children could neither read the homograph nor paraphrase the sentence, indicating a structural deficit in the syntactic tree. Further testing of these children confirmed the different impairments: some are impaired only in Wh-movement, whereas others have CP impairment. The syntactic impairment correlated with whether or not a hearing device was fitted by the age of 1 year, but not with the type of hearing device or the depth of hearing loss: children who had a hearing device fitted during the first year of life had better syntactic abilities than children whose hearing devices were fitted later. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4224075/ /pubmed/25426086 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01229 Text en Copyright © 2014 Szterman and Friedmann. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment
title Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment
title_full Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment
title_fullStr Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment
title_full_unstemmed Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment
title_short Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment
title_sort relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25426086
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01229
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