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That Bears Repeating: Linguistic and Literary Patterns as Key to Understanding the Theme and Structure of Ancient Mediterranean Documents
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Gregory Carl Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Literary and linguistic patterns delineate structure and theme in many documents of the ancient Mediterranean world. In this dissertation, I utilize the Aeschylean tragedies of the "Persians" and the "Oresteia", the narratives of Genesis and Judges from the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament narratives of the Gospel of Mark…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Diachronic Linguistics, Biblical Literature, Hebrew
Word Characteristics of Late Talkers' Early Lexicon
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Hila Gendler-Shalev; Rama Novogrodsky – First Language, 2024
Toddlers with smaller vocabulary than expected for their age are considered late talkers (LT). This study explored the effects of characteristics of words on vocabulary acquisition of 12- to 24-month-old LT children compared with an age matched (AM) and a vocabulary matched (VM) group of typically developing peers. Using the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Phonology, Hebrew, Language Skills
Using Oral Narratives to Examine Acquisition of English Verb Morphology among Multilingual Arabic and Monolingual Hebrew Speakers: Finding Similarities with Monolingual English-Speaking SLIs
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Elena Zaretsky; Susie Russak – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Acquisition of oral English verb morphology presents difficulties for bilinguals, learners of EFL and English-speaking monolingual children with specific language impairment. This study aimed to identify challenging English verb inflections among sixth grade speakers of Arabic (N = 85) and Hebrew (N = 86) using an elicited oral narrative task, and…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Arabic, Hebrew