Methods in Bimodal Bilingualism Research

Quadros, Ronice Müller de; Pichler, Deborah Chen; Lillo‐Martin, Diane; Cruz, Carina Rebello; Kozak, L. Viola; Palmer, Jeffrey Levi; Pizzio, Aline Lemos; Reynolds, Wanette

doi:10.1002/9781118346013.ch14

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“…The data for this study came from short videos (about 5-10 minutes) collected at "language fairs" in which bimodal bilingual children completed a series of standardized language tests and played games designed to elicit particular types of language constructions (Quadros et al, 2015). All tests were administered by researchers with typical hearing using spoken English.…”

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Morphological Accuracy in the Speech of Bimodal Bilingual Children with CIs

Goodwin

Lillo‐Martin

2019

The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

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Sign language use in the (re)habilitation of children with cochlear implants (CIs) remains a controversial issue. Concerns that signing impedes spoken language development are based on research comparing children exposed to spoken and signed language (bilinguals) to children exposed only to speech (monolinguals), although abundant research demonstrates that bilinguals and monolinguals differ in language development. We control for bilingualism effects by comparing bimodal bilingual (signing-speaking) children with CIs (BB-CI) to those with typical hearing (BB-TH). Each child had at least one Deaf parent and was exposed to ASL from birth. The BB-THs were exposed to English from birth by hearing family members, while the BB-CIs began English exposure after cochlear implantation around 22-months-of-age. Elicited speech samples were analyzed for accuracy of English grammatical morpheme production. Although there was a trend toward lower overall accuracy in the BB-CIs, this seemed driven by increased omission of the plural -s, suggesting an exaggerated role of perceptual salience in this group. Errors of commission were rare in both groups. Because both groups were bimodal bilinguals, trends toward group differences were likely caused by delayed exposure to spoken language or hearing through a CI, rather than sign language exposure.

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Morphological Accuracy in the Speech of Bimodal Bilingual Children with CIs

Goodwin

Lillo‐Martin

2019

The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

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“…To provide a general introduction to the project, we summarize it here (see Quadros et al, 2015 and Chen Pichler, Hochgesang, Lillo-Martin, Quadros, and Reynolds, 2016, for overviews, and bibibi.uconn.edu for more publications).…”

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“…Experimental data from older children are collected at language ‘fairs’ designed to provide families with fun opportunities while we engage them in multiple studies of comprehension and production (see Quadros et al, 2015 regarding these procedures).…”

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The development of bimodal bilingualism

Lillo‐Martin¹,

Quadros

Pichler

2016

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A wide range of linguistic phenomena contribute to our understanding of the architecture of the human linguistic system. In this paper we present a proposal dubbed Language Synthesis to capture bilingual phenomena including code-switching and ‘transfer’ as automatic consequences of the addition of a second language, using basic concepts of Minimalism and Distributed Morphology. Bimodal bilinguals, who use a sign language and a spoken language, provide a new type of evidence regarding possible bilingual phenomena, namely code-blending, the simultaneous production of (aspects of) a message in both speech and sign. We argue that code-blending also follows naturally once a second articulatory interface is added to the model. Several different types of code-blending are discussed in connection to the predictions of the Synthesis model. Our primary data come from children developing as bimodal bilinguals, but our proposal is intended to capture a wide range of bilingual effects across any language pair.

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“…With such "bilingual" tools for evaluation of the deaf child's developmental profile, the monitoring of bimodal acquisition of two languages by the child would allow us to establish whether the child is or not on the typical development trajectory, and, if necessary (in the case of developmental retardation), to plan early intervention. Currently, some researchers are making their way in that direction on the basis of their observation of the impact of bimodal bilingualism on language development in hearing children of deaf parents (see de Quadros, Pichler, & Lillo-Martin, 2015;de Quadros, Lillo-Martin, & Pichler, 2016). This is relevant for two reasons.…”

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From Sign Language to Spoken Language? A New Discourse of Language Development in Deaf Children

Tomaszewski

Krzysztofiak

Moroń

2019

Psychology of Language and Communication

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The aim of this paper is to show shifts in the language development of deaf and hard of hearing children over the last 30 years. The paper presents an overview of Western and Polish studies on education and language development in deaf children in terms of psycholinguistics. Perceptions of the perceptual and cognitive capabilities of such children must be subject to revision and continual methodological reflection due to rapidly changing variables, such as technological progress, social and cultural conditions of primary socialization and the aims of deaf education. Now that an increasing number of deaf children undergo cochlear implantation, and digital hearing aids can provide 70-75 dB of gain, thus enabling the children to spontaneously develop speech, many of them function in a bimodal environment of the sign and the speech. However, they perform at different levels of educational and developmental success. This paper elucidates the issues of language flexibility in and heterogenization of children using hearing aids or implants on a daily basis.

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Methods in Bimodal Bilingualism Research

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

Morphological Accuracy in the Speech of Bimodal Bilingual Children with CIs

Morphological Accuracy in the Speech of Bimodal Bilingual Children with CIs

The development of bimodal bilingualism

From Sign Language to Spoken Language? A New Discourse of Language Development in Deaf Children

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