The goal of this basic experimental study involving humans (BESH) clinical trial is to examine how stimulus length affects grammar learning in children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and who primarily use spoken language. The main question it aims to answer is: do short or long stimuli better support grammar learning in this population? Participants will complete an artificial grammar learning task to see which condition (short vs. long stimuli) results in better grammar learning.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
Grammar-like auditory stimuli will comprise short linguistic content.
Grammar-like auditory stimuli will comprise long linguistic content.
Accuracy on third grammaticality judgment test
Participants will be presented with novel, grammar-like auditory stimuli. They will decide whether each stimulus matches or does not match the artificial language that they were previously presented with.
Time frame: End of day 2 of the artificial grammar learning task
Accuracy on first grammaticality judgment test
Participants will be presented with novel, grammar-like auditory stimuli. They will decide whether each stimulus matches or does not match the artificial language that they were previously presented with.
Time frame: Middle of day 1 of the artificial grammar learning task
Accuracy on the second grammaticality judgment task
Participants will be presented with novel, grammar-like auditory stimuli. They will decide whether each stimulus matches or does not match the artificial language they were presented with previously.
Time frame: Start of day 2 of the artificial grammar learning task
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