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Naila Tallas-Mahajna; Esther Dromi – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Given the rich bound morphology of Spoken Arabic, an attempt was made here to construct a developmental measure corresponding to the mean length utterance (MLU) in English and to morpheme-per-utterance (MPU) in Hebrew. The adaptation to Arabic resulted in a new measurement termed Arabic-MPU, that was experimentally tested on a sample of 98…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Arabic
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Hsin-Hui Lu; Wei-Chun Che; Yung-Hao Yang; Feng-Ming Tsao – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background and Aims: This longitudinal study investigated the language skills, phonological working memory and lexical-tone perception of Mandarin-speaking late-talkers (LTs) and those with typical language development (TLD) at 27 months, while also examining their connections with novel word-referent mapping (W-R mapping) through eye-tracking at…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Mandarin Chinese, Delayed Speech, Language Skills