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Kissine, Mikhail; Luffin, Xavier; Aiad, Fethia; Bourourou, Rym; Deliens, Gaétane; Gaddour, Naoufel – Language Learning, 2019
We have documented the significant presence of spontaneous and productive use of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in the speech of five Tunisian boys with autism, an unusual phenomenon. In typical development, MSA is not fully acquired before the late school years. The Arabic language in Tunisia is in a state of diglossia, and (unlike the colloquial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Standard Spoken Usage, Autism
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Vanhove, Jan – Language Learning, 2017
This study investigated how standard and substandard varieties of first language (L1) Dutch affect grammatical gender assignments to nouns in second language (L2) German. While German distinguishes between masculine, feminine, and neuter gender, the masculine--feminine distinction has nearly disappeared in Standard Dutch. Many substandard Belgian…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage, Native Language, Language Research