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Ashkenazi, Orit; Ravid, Dorit; Gillis, Steven – First Language, 2016
Verb learning is an important part of linguistic acquisition. The present study examines the early phases of verb acquisition in Hebrew, a language with complex derivational and inflectional verb morphology, analyzing verbs in dense recordings of CDS and CS of two Hebrew-speaking parent-child dyads aged 1;8-2;2. The goal was to pinpoint those cues…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semitic Languages, Language Acquisition, Parents
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Lustigman, Lyle – First Language, 2013
The study investigates acquisition of verb inflections by four monolingual Hebrew-acquiring children from middle-class backgrounds, audio-recorded in longitudinal, weekly samples at a mean age-range of between 18 and 26 months. Productive use of inflectional morphology is shown to manifest increasing structural specification, as a function of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Verbs, Language Usage, Grammar
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Maital, Sharone L.; Dromi, Esther; Sagi, Abraham; Bornstein, Marc H. – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Discusses construction of the Hebrew Communicative Development Inventory (HCDI), an adaptation of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI). The HCDI was administered to a stratified sample of Israeli mothers of 253 toddlers. Results are presented and compared with scores from the MCDI. Results indicate that conclusions concerning…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English