Testing the phonemes relevant for German verb morphology in hard-of-hearing children: The FinKon-test

Hennies, Johannes; Penke, Martina; Rothweiler, Monika; Wimmer, Eva; Heß, Markus

doi:10.3109/14015439.2012.664653

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“…It has been shown by Hennies et al (2012), that German-speaking HI children perform worse than normal-hearing children on the perception of consonants that are relevant for subject-verb agreement on syllable offset. Furthermore, Szagun (2004) showed that the article system of German-speaking children with a CI (cochlear implant) is less well-developed than that in normal hearing children, which she argues is the result of persisting perceptual problems.…”

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A Deficit in Movement-Derived Sentences in German-Speaking Hearing-Impaired Children

Ruigendijk

Friedmann

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Children with hearing impairment (HI) show disorders in syntax and morphology. The question is whether and how these disorders are connected to problems in the auditory domain. The aim of this paper is to examine whether moderate to severe hearing loss at a young age affects the ability of German-speaking orally trained children to understand and produce sentences. We focused on sentence structures that are derived by syntactic movement, which have been identified as a sensitive marker for syntactic impairment in other languages and in other populations with syntactic impairment. Therefore, our study tested subject and object relatives, subject and object Wh-questions, passive sentences, and topicalized sentences, as well as sentences with verb movement to second sentential position. We tested 19 HI children aged 9;5–13;6 and compared their performance with hearing children using comprehension tasks of sentence-picture matching and sentence repetition tasks. For the comprehension tasks, we included HI children who passed an auditory discrimination task; for the sentence repetition tasks, we selected children who passed a screening task of simple sentence repetition without lip-reading; this made sure that they could perceive the words in the tests, so that we could test their grammatical abilities. The results clearly showed that most of the participants with HI had considerable difficulties in the comprehension and repetition of sentences with syntactic movement: they had significant difficulties understanding object relatives, Wh-questions, and topicalized sentences, and in the repetition of object who and which questions and subject relatives, as well as in sentences with verb movement to second sentential position. Repetition of passives was only problematic for some children. Object relatives were still difficult at this age for both HI and hearing children. An additional important outcome of the study is that not all sentence structures are impaired—passive structures were not problematic for most of the HI children

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A Deficit in Movement-Derived Sentences in German-Speaking Hearing-Impaired Children

Ruigendijk

Friedmann

2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…We hypothesized that children with CIs perceive morphosyntactic cues less well than children with NH, because these cues are perceptually not very salient. Case forms such as der "the NOM " and den "the ACC " or welcher "which NOM " and welchen "which ACC " have been argued to be difficult to discriminate perceptually; the same holds for agreement morphology with respect to number (e.g., the third-person singular -s morpheme) on the verb (Hennies, Penke, Rothweiler, Wimmer, & Hess, 2012).…”

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Which Questions Do Children With Cochlear Implants Understand? An Eye-Tracking Study

Schouwenaars

Finke

Hendriks

et al. 2019

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the processing of morphosyntactic cues (case and verb agreement) by children with cochlear implants (CIs) in German which -questions, where interpretation depends on these morphosyntactic cues. The aim was to examine whether children with CIs who perceive the different cues also make use of them in speech comprehension and processing in the same way as children with normal hearing (NH). Method Thirty-three children with CIs (age 7;01–12;04 years;months, M = 9;07, bilaterally implanted before age 3;3) and 36 children with NH (age 7;05–10;09 years, M = 9;01) received a picture selection task with eye tracking to test their comprehension of subject, object, and passive which -questions. Two screening tasks tested their auditory discrimination of case morphology and their perception and comprehension of subject–verb agreement. Results Children with CIs who performed well on the screening tests still showed more difficulty on the comprehension of object questions than children with NH, whereas they comprehended subject questions and passive questions equally well as children with NH. There was large interindividual variability within the CI group. The gaze patterns of children with NH showed reanalysis effects for object questions disambiguated later in the sentence by verb agreement, but not for object questions disambiguated by case at the first noun phrase. The gaze patterns of children with CIs showed reanalysis effects even for object questions disambiguated at the first noun phrase. Conclusions Even when children with CIs perceive case and subject–verb agreement, their ability to use these cues for offline comprehension and online processing still lags behind normal development, which is reflected in lower performance rates and longer processing times. Individual variability within the CI group can partly be explained by working memory and hearing age. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7728731

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Sprachentwicklung, Diagnostik und Förderung bei Kindern mit Hörschädigung

Hennies

Hintermair

2020

Sprachentwicklung

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Testing the phonemes relevant for German verb morphology in hard-of-hearing children: The FinKon-test

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

A Deficit in Movement-Derived Sentences in German-Speaking Hearing-Impaired Children

A Deficit in Movement-Derived Sentences in German-Speaking Hearing-Impaired Children

Which Questions Do Children With Cochlear Implants Understand? An Eye-Tracking Study

Sprachentwicklung, Diagnostik und Förderung bei Kindern mit Hörschädigung

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