Perception Versus Comprehension of Bound Morphemes in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: The Pivotal Role of Form-Meaning Mapping.

Purpose: Bound morphemes are challenging for children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) to acquire and to use successfully. The challenge arises in part from limited access to spoken word forms as a result of reduced audibility during perception, but successful comprehension requires access to...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 1024 - 1038
Autores principales: Barcroft, Joe, Mauzé, Elizabeth, Sommers, Mitchell, Spehar, Brent, Tye-Murray, Nancy
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Mar2025
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          Barcroft, Joe
          Mauzé, Elizabeth
          Sommers, Mitchell
          Spehar, Brent
          Tye-Murray, Nancy
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          Department of Romance Language and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
          Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
          Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
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        Comparative grammar
        Children with disabilities
        Task performance
        School children
        Vocabulary
        Language acquisition
        Deafness in children
        Research funding
        Phonological awareness
        Hearing disorders in children
        Speech evaluation
        Neuropsychological tests
        Auditory perception
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          Comparative grammar
          Children with disabilities
          Task performance
          School children
          Vocabulary
          Language acquisition
          United States
          Deafness in children
          Research funding
          Phonological awareness
          Hearing disorders in children
          Speech evaluation
          Neuropsychological tests
          Auditory perception
      ab: Purpose: Bound morphemes are challenging for children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) to acquire and to use successfully. The challenge arises in part from limited access to spoken word forms as a result of reduced audibility during perception, but successful comprehension requires access to both the morphological forms and the mapping between these forms and their meanings. This study investigated the relationship between perception and comprehension of bound morphemes in order to assess the impact of form-meaning mapping on performance. Method: Seventy-eight elementary school-age children who are DHH were tested on their perception and comprehension of four bound morphemes: third-person --s, possessive --s, past tense --ed, and plural --s/es. During assessment, these appeared in sentences presented using both auditory-only and auditory--visual modalities. The assessment procedure dissociated (a) perception of form using a sentence repetition task from (b) comprehension of meaning based on responses to a two-choice picture discrimination task. Results: Analyses both confirmed the reliability of the measures of perception and comprehension and revealed generally higher performance for perception over comprehension. Critically, correlations between perception and comprehension were mostly not significant. Secondary findings included that higher performance for one bound morpheme did not imply higher performance on others and a significant relationship between measures of vocabulary and performance on the bound morpheme tasks. Conclusions: The findings of the study highlight the importance of distinguishing between perception versus comprehension of morphological forms. Successful comprehension requires form-meaning mapping, whereas successful perception requires only acquisition of form. Both theoretical and practical implications of the mapping component of speech processing are discussed, including the value of providing programs of auditory training that are meaning-oriented in nature.
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