Movimento X0 em crianças com implante coclear: evidência para défice sintático em casos de input tardio

Resumo

Orally trained hearing impaired children with hearing aids and cochlear implants show general syntactic deficit in constructions involving movement (passives, wh-questions and relative clauses) as a result of their late exposure to linguistic input (Friedmann & Szterman, 2006). In this paper, we explore XP movement in wh-questions and X⁰ movement in verbal answers and in clitic production in cochlear implanted children’s spontaneous speech. The results show that these children have no problems with wh- movement but show difficulties with X⁰ movement, revealing a possible difficulty with a type of movement that takes place at the PF interface.