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Layal Abboud; Lina Choueiri; Nour Seifeddine; Laurice Tuller – Journal of Child Language, 2024
In Lebanese Arabic, lexical subjects may occur before or after verbs, but only before non-verbal predicates. Analysis of spontaneous language samples from 19 two-year-old children shows that postverbal (VS) and preverbal (SV) subjects emerge simultaneously. The youngest children displayed no VS-SV difference in frequency. A slight preference for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Lori Le Duc Slaybaugh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Null Subject Parameter (NSP) has long been considered pertinent to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) studies, especially when the native language (NL) and target language (TL) have different NSP settings. The study aimed to investigate whether seventy English L2 learners in Puerto Rico who were native Spanish speakers transferred their L1…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Learning