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Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4-7 Years with Cochlear Implants.
Yan Wu1, Yang Wang1, Ying Chen2
1School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Journal of Child Language
|January 28, 2025
Summary
Deaf children with cochlear implants show syntactic priming for Chinese structures. Verb repetition uniquely enhances this effect in CI users, influenced by working memory for specific structures.
Area of Science:
- Linguistics
- Developmental Psychology
- Auditory Neuroscience
Background:
- Cochlear implants (CIs) offer auditory input but may impact language development in deaf children.
- Understanding abstract syntactic knowledge is crucial for language acquisition.
- Chinese transitive structures (SVO, BA, BEI) provide a complex linguistic system to study.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate abstract syntactic knowledge in deaf children with CIs using Chinese transitive structures.
- To compare syntactic development between children with CIs and typically hearing children.
- To explore individual differences, including working memory, in syntactic priming.
Main Methods:
- Utilized the syntactic priming paradigm with Chinese SVO, BA, and BEI structures.
- Assessed comprehension and repetition of prime sentences.
- Analyzed priming effects with and without verb repetition.
- Correlated working memory capacity with syntactic structure production.
Main Results:
- Both CI and hearing children demonstrated structural priming across all tested Chinese syntactic structures.
- Verb repetition significantly enhanced abstract priming in CI children, unlike in hearing children.
- The lexical boost effect was more pronounced for SVO and BA structures in CI children.
- Working memory modulated BA structure production in CI children, but not SVO or BEI.
Conclusions:
- Deaf children with CIs possess abstract syntactic knowledge comparable to hearing children.
- Verb repetition plays a unique role in enhancing syntactic priming for CI users.
- Individual differences in working memory capacity influence the production of specific syntactic structures in CI users.
Keywords:
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