\nDown syndrome (henceforth, DS) is a condition that results in severe intellectual impairment. In
\nthis talk we investigate the knowledge of syntactic and morphological Case in individuals
\ndiagnosed with DS.<\/p>\n
Previous work on English individuals diagnosed with Down Syndrome (henceforth, Eng DS )
\nargues for an impaired development of Tense and Subject\/Verb agreement (Chapman et al. 1998,
\nChapman and Hesketh 2000, Eadie et al. 2002, Laws and Bishop 2003, inter alia). However,
\nwork on the phonetic and phonological system of Eng DS has independently shown a deficit in the
\nproduction of inflectionally related sounds like \/s\/, \/t\/, \/d\/, as well as other lingual sounds,
\narguing that this is a result of a distinct phonetic and phonological development, due to the
\ncharacteristic physiology of the articulation apparatus of DS individuals (e.g. tongue volume)
\n(Stoel-Gammon 2001).<\/p>\n
Through nine experimental tasks, we investigate the linguistic performance of 16 Cypriot
\nGreek individuals diagnosed with Down Syndrome (henceforth, CG DS ), aged 19;0 to 45;11, and
\n17 Cypriot Greek Typically Developing Children (hereafter, CG TDC ), aged 7;0 to 8;11. We
\nexamine whether \u0096 after setting aside the phonetic and phonological restrictions \u0096 we still find
\ndifferences in CG DS and CG TDC \u0092s inflectional systems. If yes, we ask whether those differences
\nare due to a different realization of the morphological system, or else impairment in the syntactic
\nassignment of Case.<\/p>\n
Results show that Cypriot-Greek DS have (near) full acquisition of both the morphological
\nand syntactic system of Case. For the small percentage of instances that were not used as
\nexpected, DS exhibit a comprehensive system based on (i) the consistent use of defaults, (ii)
\naffix drop and (iii) word omission.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Speaker: Christiana Christodoulou (MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences) Title: Case in Down syndrome: Morpho-syntactic illusions and the role of interfaces Date\/Time: Tuesday, May 15, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 The speaker writes: “This talk could potentially be of interest to phoneticians\/phonologists as well, as a phonetic\/phonological analysis, prior to the morpho-syntactic one, sets the foundation of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}