The utterances of Vincent, child of deaf parents

2. The utterances of Vincent, child of deaf parents

• Vincent: hearing child of deaf parents who taught him sign language. He did not speak and heard sounds only by watching television. He was first exposed to speak English when he was over three years old.
• at first his speech was barely intelligible and only slowly his speech became clear
• short utterances: “You –uh-oh”
• limited vocabulary: „puter“ was a general, all-purpose verb.
• “You”: several meanings: you, he, she
• tendency to “copy-around” a word, to put one form on both sides of another “You house you”