Grammatical morphology often links small acoustic forms to abstract semantic domains. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have reduced access to the acoustic signal and frequently have delayed acquisition of grammatical morphology (e.g., Tomblin, Harrison, Ambrose, Walker, Oleson & Moeller, 2015). This study investigated the naturalistic use of aspectual morphology in DHH children to determine if they organize this semantic domain as normal hearing (NH) children have been found to do. Thirty DHH children (M = 6;8) and 29 NH children (M = 5;11) acquiring English participated in a free-play session and their tokens of perfective (simple past) and imperfective (-ing) morphology were coded for the lexical aspect of the predicate they marked. Both groups showed established prototype effects, favoring perfective + telic and imperfective + atelic pairings over perfective + atelic and perfective + atelic ones. Thus, despite reduced access to the acoustic signal, this DHH group was unimpaired for aspectual organization.

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方面形态学在聋哑儿童中的自然应用

语法形态通常将小的声学形式与抽象的语义域联系起来。聋人和听力障碍 (DHH) 儿童接触声音信号的机会减少，并且经常延迟获得语法形态（例如，Tomblin、Harrison、Ambrose、Walker、Oleson 和 Moeller，2015 年）。本研究调查了 DHH 儿童对方面形态的自然使用，以确定他们是否像正常听力 (NH) 儿童那样组织这个语义域。三十个DHH孩子（米= 6;8) 和 29 个 NH 儿童 (米= 5;11) 学习英语参加了自由游戏环节，他们的完成时（简单过去时）和未完成时（-荷兰国际集团) 形态学根据他们标记的谓词的词汇方面进行编码。两组都显示出已建立的原型效应，有利于完美 + telic 和不完美 + atelic 配对超过完美 + atelic 和完美 + atelic 配对。因此，尽管减少了对声音信号的访问，但这个 DHH 组在方面组织方面没有受到损害。