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Qasem, Fawaz; Sircar, Shruti – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2017
The paper shows that children acquiring Yemeni Ibbi Arabic4 (henceforth referred to as YIA) go through a stage equivalent to the Root Infinitive (RI) stage found in non-null subject languages in spite of the fact that YIA is a null subject and does not have an infinitive construction. Spontaneous speech of two YIA children (2;1-2;11) showed…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Sentence Structure
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Fahim, Donia – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This paper presents an investigation of verb morphology in the spontaneous productions of three preschool Egyptian Arabic- (EA) speaking children with language impairment (LI) and a group of typically developing children. The typological characteristics of Arabic, such as its rich morphology, lack of infinitival form and complex verb system, make…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Language Impairments, Error Patterns