Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children
This study explores the phonological development of hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children, shedding light on the unique challenges and patterns that characterise their phonological process. The subjects of the research include 40 hearing aids Malay-speaking children with a chronological age...
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| author | Jhanani S.Nagaraja, Badrulzaman Abdul Hamid, Nashrah Maamor, |
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| description | This study explores the phonological development of hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children,
shedding light on the unique challenges and patterns that characterise their phonological process.
The subjects of the research include 40 hearing aids Malay-speaking children with a chronological
age of 5 to 9 years old and hearing age of a minimum of 2 years. Utilising a mixed-method research
method, we examined the effect of hearing-impairment on the acquisition of Malay phonological
features and the association between socio-demographic factors and phonological process in
hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children. Through the analysis of speech samples and
sociodemographic information that were collected through a standardised picture naming task, it
was concluded that the phonological process in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children is
fronting, assimilation, stopping, voicing, initial consonant deletion, epenthesis, deaffrication,
depalatalisation, denasalization, devoicing, prevocalic voicing, final consonant deletion,
reduplication, and gliding. Furthermore, there is a relationship between socio-demographic factors
and the phonological process in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children. Lastly, hearing age is
an important variable that is statistically significant in predicting the relationship between
sociodemographic factors and phonological process in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children.
The results of this research contribute to a deeper comprehension of the phonological development
of hearing-impaired children in a Malay-speaking context, with its relationship to
sociodemographic factors. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:259542025-10-02T01:32:28Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25954/ Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children Jhanani S.Nagaraja, Badrulzaman Abdul Hamid, Nashrah Maamor, This study explores the phonological development of hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children, shedding light on the unique challenges and patterns that characterise their phonological process. The subjects of the research include 40 hearing aids Malay-speaking children with a chronological age of 5 to 9 years old and hearing age of a minimum of 2 years. Utilising a mixed-method research method, we examined the effect of hearing-impairment on the acquisition of Malay phonological features and the association between socio-demographic factors and phonological process in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children. Through the analysis of speech samples and sociodemographic information that were collected through a standardised picture naming task, it was concluded that the phonological process in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children is fronting, assimilation, stopping, voicing, initial consonant deletion, epenthesis, deaffrication, depalatalisation, denasalization, devoicing, prevocalic voicing, final consonant deletion, reduplication, and gliding. Furthermore, there is a relationship between socio-demographic factors and the phonological process in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children. Lastly, hearing age is an important variable that is statistically significant in predicting the relationship between sociodemographic factors and phonological process in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children. The results of this research contribute to a deeper comprehension of the phonological development of hearing-impaired children in a Malay-speaking context, with its relationship to sociodemographic factors. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2025 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25954/1/Gema_25_1_3.pdf Jhanani S.Nagaraja, and Badrulzaman Abdul Hamid, and Nashrah Maamor, (2025) Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 25 (1). pp. 33-55. ISSN 1675-8021 https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1803 |
| spellingShingle | Jhanani S.Nagaraja, Badrulzaman Abdul Hamid, Nashrah Maamor, Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children |
| title | Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children |
| title_full | Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children |
| title_fullStr | Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children |
| title_short | Phonological development in hearing-impaired Malay-speaking children |
| title_sort | phonological development in hearing-impaired malay-speaking children |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25954/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25954/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25954/1/Gema_25_1_3.pdf |