X0 movement in children with cochlear implants: evidence for syntactic deficit in cases of late input

Authors

  • João Costa Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • Mara Moita Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln2ano2016a9

Keywords:

X0 movement, syntactic deficit, hearing impairment, cochlear implant, language acquisition

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.

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Published

2016-10-31

How to Cite

Costa, J., & Moita, M. (2016). X0 movement in children with cochlear implants: evidence for syntactic deficit in cases of late input. Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (2), 205–234. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln2ano2016a9

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No. 2 (2016): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

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