Acquisition Reversal

1 - Acknowledgments [Seite 9]
2 - Abbreviations [Seite 11]
3 - Chapter 1 Postlingual Deafness [Seite 13]
3.1 - 1.1 Introduction [Seite 13]
3.2 - 1.2 Factors affecting language development and maintenance after hearing loss [Seite 16]
3.3 - 1.3 Deafness and its causes among the Yoruba [Seite 18]
3.4 - 1.4 First language attrition, postlingual deafness, language loss [Seite 20]
3.5 - 1.5 The Empirical Base [Seite 23]
3.6 - 1.6 Theoretical framework [Seite 24]
3.6.1 - 1.6.1 Optimality Theory: markedness and faithfulness [Seite 27]
3.6.2 - 1.6.2 Childhood Postlingual Deafness: Belfast English Patterns [Seite 32]
3.7 - 1.7 Goals and Organization of the Book [Seite 35]
4 - Chapter 2 The Yoruba: the people and their language [Seite 37]
4.1 - 2.1 The Yoruba of West Africa and Diaspora [Seite 37]
4.2 - 2.2 Yoruba Language [Seite 43]
4.2.1 - 2.2.1 The sound system (Phonetics and Phonology) [Seite 44]
4.2.2 - 2.2.2 Word size and word formation (Morphology) [Seite 58]
4.2.3 - 2.2.3 Sentence formation (Syntax) [Seite 60]
5 - Chapter 3 Deafness, Societal Attitude, and Language Adaptation [Seite 65]
5.1 - 3.1 Attitude toward the Deaf [Seite 65]
5.2 - 3.2 Congenital deafness [Seite 66]
5.3 - 3.3 When a deaf child is motherless or orphaned: the story of Kuye.? [Seite 71]
5.4 - 3.4 Postlingually Acquired Deafness: Challenges and Language Adaptation [Seite 76]
5.4.1 - 3.4.1 "I cannot believe I can still talk": the postlingually deafened child [Seite 76]
5.4.2 - 3.4.2 "Listening and hearing with my eyes": reading lips and reading gestures [Seite 79]
5.4.3 - 3.4.3 Life at School for the Deaf [Seite 81]
5.4.4 - 3.4.4 "I miss hearing my language": the challenges of mothering hearing children [Seite 85]
5.4.5 - 3.4.5 "Ears are like kidneys, you can indeed live well with only one": hearing with one ear [Seite 89]
5.4.6 - 3.4.6 Hearing aids and language preservation [Seite 91]
6 - Chapter 4 Yoruba Sign Language: A Basic Description [Seite 93]
6.1 - 4.1 Background [Seite 93]
6.2 - 4.2 Contrasting Yoruba co-speech gesture and Yoruba Sign Language [Seite 99]
6.2.1 - 4.2.1 Gestures and YSL Similarity: Pointing [Seite 99]
6.2.2 - 4.2.2 Gestures and YSL Differences [Seite 100]
6.3 - 4.3 The phonology of YSL [Seite 109]
6.3.1 - 4.3.1 One- versus Two-Handed Signs [Seite 110]
6.3.2 - 4.3.2 Hand shapes [Seite 112]
6.3.3 - 4.3.3 Location [Seite 119]
6.3.4 - 4.3.4 Movement [Seite 124]
6.3.5 - 4.3.5 Non-manual articulators - head, mouth, face, nose, arm, leg [Seite 128]
6.4 - 4.4 The Morphology of YSL [Seite 135]
6.4.1 - 4.4.1 Monomorphemic signs [Seite 135]
6.4.2 - 4.4.2 Polymorphemic signs [Seite 136]
6.4.3 - 4.4.3 Other Morphological Processes [Seite 138]
6.5 - 4.5 YSL Syntax [Seite 142]
6.5.1 - 4.5.1 Basic Word order [Seite 142]
6.5.2 - 4.5.2 Negation and Questions [Seite 144]
6.6 - 4.6 Discussion and Conclusion [Seite 149]
7 - Chapter 5 Postlingual Deafness at Age 5: Patterns of Loss after 25 Years [Seite 151]
7.1 - 5.1 Postlingual Deafness Phonological Patterns [Seite 152]
7.1.1 - 5.1.1 Consonants [Seite 152]
7.1.2 - 5.1.2 Vowels [Seite 158]
7.1.3 - 5.1.3 Tones [Seite 165]
7.1.4 - 5.1.4 Syllable structure [Seite 171]
7.2 - 5.2 Morphology [Seite 175]
7.3 - 5.3 Syntax [Seite 178]
7.4 - 5.4 Summary of M's grammar [Seite 182]
8 - Chapter 6 Postlingual Deafness at Age 8: Patterns of Loss after 25 Years [Seite 184]
8.1 - 6.1 Postlingual Deafness Phonological Patterns [Seite 184]
8.1.1 - 6.1.1 Consonants [Seite 184]
8.1.2 - 6.1.2 Vowels [Seite 188]
8.1.3 - 6.1.3 Tone patterns [Seite 195]
8.1.4 - 6.1.4 Syllable structure [Seite 200]
8.2 - 6.2 Morphology [Seite 203]
8.3 - 6.3 Syntax [Seite 207]
8.4 - 6.4 Summary and Comparison of T and M's grammars [Seite 212]
9 - Chapter 7 The Connection of Postlingual Deafness Language Loss to Acquisition [Seite 215]
9.1 - 7.1 Children's acquisition of phonology [Seite 215]
9.2 - 7.2 Yoruba child phonology [Seite 216]
9.2.1 - 7.2.1 Tones [Seite 217]
9.2.2 - 7.2.2 Oral Vowels [Seite 220]
9.2.3 - 7.2.3 Nasal vowel patterns [Seite 227]
9.2.4 - 7.2.4 Consonants [Seite 229]
9.2.5 - 7.2.5 Syllables [Seite 236]
9.2.6 - 7.2.6 Phonological Acquisition and Postlingual Deafness Attrition [Seite 240]
9.3 - 7.3 Morphology [Seite 243]
9.4 - 7.4 Syntax [Seite 247]
9.4.1 - 7.4.1 Two-word stage [Seite 247]
9.4.2 - 7.4.2 Telegraphic Multi-word Stage [Seite 249]
9.4.3 - 7.4.3 Full finite sentences [Seite 251]
9.4.4 - 7.4.4 Complex sentences: Focus construction [Seite 252]
9.4.5 - 7.4.5 Child Yoruba syntax and syntactic attrition [Seite 255]
9.5 - 7.5 Acquisition and Postlingual Deafness Attrition as Mirror Markedness-based Systems [Seite 256]
10 - Chapter 8 Summary, Suggestions for Rehabilitation and Further Research [Seite 262]
10.1 - 8.1 Summary of findings [Seite 262]
10.1.1 - 8.1.1 Defining Deafness [Seite 262]
10.1.2 - 8.1.2 Documenting a less known aspect of Yoruba: postlingual deafness data [Seite 263]
10.1.3 - 8.1.3 Parallel patterns in attrition and acquisition [Seite 263]
10.1.4 - 8.1.4 The age factor in determining the degree of attrition [Seite 264]
10.1.5 - 8.1.5 Documenting Yoruba Sign Language [Seite 264]
10.2 - 8.2 Suggestions for Linguistic Rehabilitation [Seite 264]
10.3 - 8.3 Remaining issues and recommendations for further research [Seite 267]
11 - References [Seite 270]
12 - Index [Seite 291]