Abstract
This study investigates primary word stress and phonological structure of monomorphemic words by eleven German hearing-impaired children aged 3 to 6 years. Eight words of varying word length representing the three possible types of primary word stress were chosen as test words. During each child's stay at the Clinic for Communication Disorders in Mainz, Germany these words were elicited via a spontaneous elicitation method in a single session of approximately 30 minutes for each child. The findings indicate that in more than two-thirds of the time the children had correct primary word stress and that less than 20% of their productions showed deviations in word and syllable structure. In particular, the observed deviations mirror those common in unimpaired language acquisition and mostly did not influence the prosodic structure of the word. The findings suggest that hearing-impaired children are not impaired but are delayed in acquiring the rule-driven German phonological system.
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