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Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin; Khamis-Jubran, Maram – Journal of Child Language, 2021
This study investigated the acquisition of word-patterns and roots in the nominal system of the spoken language of Palestinian Arabic (PA) and its distance from Standard Arabic (StA). It described, analyzed, and quantified the nominal system (roots and word-patterns) as reflected in the language corpus of Palestinian-Arab kindergarteners 3 to 6…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages)
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Khamis-Dakwar, Reem; Froud, Karen; Gordon, Peter – Journal of Child Language, 2012
There are differences and similarities between Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and spoken varieties of Arabic, in all language domains. To obtain preliminary insights into interactions between the acquisition of spoken and standard varieties of a language in a diglossic situation, we employed forced-choice grammaticality judgments to investigate…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Interference (Language), Bilingualism