Production of inflectional morphology in a child with moderate hearing impairment

The present study explores the production of bound morphemes in the speech of a nine-year old Greek child with moderate hearing impairment (HI). Data were obtained through the child’s responses to subtests from the Diagnostic Verbal IQ Test (DVIQ, Stavrakaki et al. 2000) and samples of her speech. The analysis concerned the inflection of nouns, adjectives and verbs. The results showed that, even though the morphological features of names and verbs were marked correctly in the majority of utterances, errors were still observed in the child’s speech. These errors concerned mainly the marking of the plural number in nouns and the perfective aspect in verbs.