Abstract
This paper examined the syntactic production performance of Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) in narrative speech. The main purpose was to investigate how CI children differed from their normal-hearing (NH) peers in syntactic proficiency. The results showed that compared with their NH peers: 1) CI children were generally less productive in narrative speech, as they failed to produce more and longer utterances to potentially deliver complex and rich information; 2) used more simple-structured utterances with less variant length and preferred to apply coordination than subordination structure, in terms of T-unit measures and utterance types. 3) produced cognitively less complex utterances in terms of the dependency distance. Finally, earlier implantation had a positive impact on the syntactic production performance of the CI children while longer device use may not have such significant contribution.
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