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Word Learning in Arabic Diglossia in Children with Typical Language Development and Developmental Language Disorder
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Ola Ghawi-Dakwar; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Word learning requires the creation of phonological and semantic representations and links in long-term memory. Phonological distance of a given word from the spoken language affects children's lexical-phonological representations and processing. The study investigates the role of the phonological distance of Modern Standard Arabic (StA)…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Arabic, Bilingualism, Phonology
Children's Command of Four Inflectional Constructions in Arabic: Differences and Development with Age
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Ibrahim A. Asadi; Abeer Asli-Badarneh; Duaa Abu Elhija; Jasmeen Mansour-Adwan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study examines whether differences in acquisition exist among the inflectional constructions of number, gender, possessive pronouns, and tense. Moreover, the study investigates whether these inflectional patterns develop with age. Method: The participants were 1,020 Arabic-speaking kindergartners from K2 and K3. Children were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Kindergarten
Text Complexity and Variety Factors in Narrative Retelling and Narrative Comprehension among Arabic-Speaking Preschool Children
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Kawar, Khaloob; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Armon-Lotem, Sharon – First Language, 2023
The current study investigates narrative retelling and comprehension among 30 native Arabic-speaking preschool children with a mean age of 5:10. Narrative features of text-complexity (less-complex and more-complex episodic structure) and language variety (Spoken Palestinian Arabic [PA] and Modern Standard Arabic [MSA]) were analyzed for their…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Preschool Children, Arabic, Language Variation
Grammatical Number in Arabic-English Bilingual Children
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Bassil Mashaqba; Anas Huneety; Abdallah Alshdaifat; Wafa'a Abu Aisheh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study examined the developmental trajectories of Arabic grammatical number in Arabic-English bilingual children. The samples consisted of 80 individuals (40 monolingual children residing in Jordan and 40 bilingual children residing in the USA), aged between 5 and 9 years. Data was collected through two tasks involving picture able objects and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Accuracy
The Acquisition of Complex English Structures by Adult Native Speakers of Arabic and Hebrew.
Cooper, Robert L.; And Others – 1978
This investigation examined the acquisition of five complex English syntactic structures by Egyptian and Israeli adult learners at different levels of proficiency. Carol Chomsky's methodology, as adapted by d'Anglejan and Tucker, served to assess comprehension of these structures. The responses of the Egyptians and Israelis, which were similar to…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Arabic, Comprehension, Contrastive Linguistics
Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition.
Eckman, Fred R., Ed.; Hastings, Ashley J., Ed. – 1979
Papers presented at a 1977 symposium on language acquisition held at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee are included. Contents are as follows: "Assumptions, Methods and Goals in Language Acquisition Research" (Sheldon); "The Mother as LAD: Interaction between Order and Frequency of Parental Input and Child Production"…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Arabic, Bilingualism, Child Language